By:  Shelley                                          S.B. No. 1366
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the requirement that certain home-rule municipalities
    1-2  obtain the consent of the voters in certain subdivisions before
    1-3  annexing the subdivisions.
    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 SUBDIVISIONS BY POPULOUS
    1-8  HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  This section applies only to the
    1-9  annexation of a subdivision:
   1-10              (1)  in which more than 1,000 registered voters reside;
   1-11              (2)  that has been in existence for at least 10 years
   1-12  and for which a plat was prepared and filed as required by law at
   1-13  the time of the creation of the subdivision; and
   1-14              (3)  in which water service, wastewater service,
   1-15  electricity service, and solid waste collection service is
   1-16  available.
   1-17        (b)  A home-rule municipality with a population of more than
   1-18  1.5 million may not institute annexation proceedings regarding the
   1-19  annexation of all or part of the subdivision unless the
   1-20  municipality obtains from a majority of the registered voters of
   1-21  the subdivision written consent to the annexation.  The consent
   1-22  must be obtained within the 60 days preceding the date the
   1-23  proceedings are instituted.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  Section 43.106, Local Government Code, as added
    2-2  by this Act, applies only to an annexation of all or part of a
    2-3  subdivision for which annexation proceedings are instituted on or
    2-4  after the effective date of this Act.  Proceedings instituted
    2-5  before the effective date of this Act are governed by the law in
    2-6  effect when the proceedings were instituted and that law is
    2-7  continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.