H.B. No. 2182 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.