By Lewis                                              H.B. No. 2182
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the voluntary inclusion of land within certain water
    1-3  districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.714, Water Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.714.  ADDING LAND BY PETITION OF LANDOWNER.  The
    1-8  owner of land may file with the board a petition requesting that
    1-9  the land described by metes and bounds in the petition be included
   1-10  in the district.  Notwithstanding any municipal ordinance,
   1-11  resolution, or any other statute to the contrary, a municipality
   1-12  may not require the annexing district or the landowner who is
   1-13  requesting annexation to obtain the municipality's consent to the
   1-14  district's annexation of the additional land if, at the time the
   1-15  petition is filed, the land to be annexed is contiguous to the
   1-16  district and not located within an area designated by ordinance or
   1-17  resolution of the municipality's governing body as the
   1-18  municipality's water and sewer service area or corporate limits.
   1-19  The land shall be deemed to be contiguous to the district if it is
   1-20  separated from the district by public land or right of way.  If the
   1-21  land to be annexed by the district is within this extraterritorial
   1-22  jurisdiction of a city, then the annexation shall not become
   1-23  effective until:  (1) the city is given written notice of the
    2-1  proposed annexation;  (2) a period of 120 days has expired since
    2-2  the notice was received; and (3) within such 120-day period, the
    2-3  city does not extend its service area boundaries along with its
    2-4  impact fee boundaries to include the land subject to annexation by
    2-5  the district along with a plan to serve the land with utilities in
    2-6  a manner substantially similar to that plan contemplated by this
    2-7  district.  A municipality's consent shall not be required for the
    2-8  inclusion or annexation of irrigable land within the boundaries of
    2-9  a district primarily engaged in providing irrigation service to
   2-10  lands within its boundaries.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-17  passage, and it is so enacted.