By Moffat                                             H.B. No. 1949
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the adoption of municipal boundaries and annexation of
    1-3  area.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 43.901, Local Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.901.  CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH CONSENT TO BOUNDARIES OR
    1-8  ANNEXATION IS PRESUMED.  (a)  A municipal ordinance defining
    1-9  boundaries of or annexing area to a municipality is conclusively
   1-10  presumed to have been adopted in accordance with the requirements
   1-11  of this chapter <with the consent of all appropriate persons> if:
   1-12              (1)  two years have expired after the date of the
   1-13  adoption of the ordinance; and
   1-14              (2)  an action to annul or review the adoption of the
   1-15  ordinance has not been initiated in that two-year period.
   1-16        (b)  This section does not validate governmental acts or
   1-17  proceedings relating to a municipality's annexation or attempted
   1-18  annexation, or the inclusion of territory on the official city
   1-19  boundary map, which is in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of
   1-20  another municipality, without the consent of that municipality.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.