By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1016 73R4157 DWS-D 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 certain municipalities. 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 RIGHTS 1-8 IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to: 1-9 (1) a municipality that has disannexed territory under 1-10 Section 43.133 that it had previously annexed for limited purposes 1-11 and that has extended rules to its extraterritorial jurisdiction 1-12 under Section 212.003; and 1-13 (2) the part of the municipality's extraterritorial 1-14 jurisdiction located in a county that contains a majority of the 1-15 area within the municipality's boundaries. 1-16 (b) The municipality shall allow all qualified voters 1-17 residing in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction to 1-18 vote on any proposition that is submitted to the voters of the 1-19 municipality and that involves: 1-20 (1) an adoption of or change to an ordinance or 1-21 charter provision that would apply to the municipality's 1-22 extraterritorial jurisdiction; or 1-23 (2) a nonbinding referendum that, if binding, would 1-24 apply to the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act does not affect the validity of an 2-2 ordinance or charter provision adopted before the effective date of 2-3 this Act other than an ordinance or charter provision relating to 2-4 persons eligible to vote in municipal elections. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.