By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 294
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to annexation by general law municipalities.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 43.033(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-4  amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  A general-law municipality may annex adjacent territory
    1-6  without the consent of any of the residents or voters of the area
    1-7  and without the consent of any of the owners of land in the area
    1-8  provided that the following conditions are met:
    1-9              (1)  the municipality has a population of 1,000 or more
   1-10  and is not eligible to adopt a home-rule charter;
   1-11              (2)  the procedural rules prescribed by this chapter
   1-12  are met;
   1-13              (3)  the municipality must be providing the area with
   1-14  water or <and> sewer service;
   1-15              (4)  the area does not include unoccupied territory in
   1-16  excess of one acre for each service address for water and sewer
   1-17  service;
   1-18              (5)  the service plan requires that police and fire
   1-19  protection at a level consistent with protection provided within
   1-20  the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after
   1-21  the effective date of the annexation; and
   1-22              (6)  the municipality and the affected landowners have
   1-23  not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain time
    2-1  period.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.