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.