By:  Hamric                                           H.B. No. 2528
       72S40303 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain annexations by a home-rule municipality with a
    1-3  population of more than 1.5 million.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 43.106 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.106.  ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN COMMERCIAL OR APARTMENT
    1-8  PROPERTY BY POPULOUS HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  This section
    1-9  applies only to the annexation of an area:
   1-10              (1)  in which three or more municipal utility districts
   1-11  provide service; and
   1-12              (2)  that is composed primarily of commercial property
   1-13  or lots on which apartments or other multifamily dwellings are
   1-14  located.
   1-15        (b)  A home-rule municipality with a population of more than
   1-16  1.5 million may not institute or complete annexation proceedings
   1-17  regarding the annexation of all or part of an area unless the
   1-18  municipality obtains from a majority of the residents of the
   1-19  subdivision written consent to the annexation.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-1  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-2  passage, and it is so enacted.