73R6295 DWS-D By Eckels H.B. No. 2216 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to governmental authority and voter rights in the 1-3 extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 42, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 42.904 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 42.904. EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION AND VOTING 1-8 RIGHTS. A municipality shall allow all qualified voters residing 1-9 in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction to vote on any 1-10 proposition that is submitted to the voters of the municipality and 1-11 that involves an adoption of or change to an ordinance or charter 1-12 provision that would apply to the municipality's extraterritorial 1-13 jurisdiction. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act does not affect the validity of an 1-15 ordinance or charter provision adopted before the effective date of 1-16 this Act other than an ordinance or charter provision relating to 1-17 persons eligible to vote in municipal elections. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.