By Puente                                             H.B. No. 1116
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to municipal comprehensive plans.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Title 7, Subtitle A of the Local Government Code
    1-5  is amended by adding Chapter 210 to read as follows:
    1-6             Chapter 210.  MUNICIPAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS.
    1-7        Sec. 210.001.  PURPOSE.  The authority and powers granted
    1-8  under this chapter are for the purpose of promoting sound
    1-9  development of cities and promoting public health, safety, and
   1-10  general welfare.
   1-11        Sec. 210.002.  COMPREHENSIVE PLANS GENERALLY.  (a)  The
   1-12  governing body of a municipality may adopt a comprehensive plan for
   1-13  the long-range development of the city.  Where adopted under the
   1-14  authority of this chapter, the scope of a comprehensive plan shall
   1-15  include, but is not limited to, land use, transportation and public
   1-16  facilities.  A comprehensive plan may be a single plan or may
   1-17  consist of a coordinated set of plans organized by subject and
   1-18  geographic area.  A city may define the exact content and design of
   1-19  a comprehensive plan.
   1-20        (b)  A comprehensive plan may be used to coordinate and guide
   1-21  the establishment of development regulations.  A city may define
   1-22  within its charter or by ordinance the relationship between a
   1-23  comprehensive plan and development regulations, including providing
    2-1  standards for determining the consistency required between a plan
    2-2  and development regulations.
    2-3        (c)  A comprehensive plan adopted under the authority of this
    2-4  chapter and complying with the substantive provisions of the Texas
    2-5  Local Government Code Section 395.045 may be used in lieu of
    2-6  separately adopted land use assumptions required for the enactment
    2-7  of impact fees.
    2-8        Sec. 210.003.  ADOPTION AND AMENDMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE
    2-9  PLAN.  (a)  A comprehensive plan may be adopted or amended by
   2-10  ordinance of the governing body of a municipality following a
   2-11  public hearing and review by the city's planning commission where
   2-12  established.
   2-13        (b)  A city may establish by charter or ordinance procedures
   2-14  for adopting and amending a comprehensive plan.
   2-15        Sec. 210.004.  OTHER MUNICIPAL PLANS.  This chapter does not
   2-16  limit the ability of a city to prepare other plans, policies, or
   2-17  strategies as it may require.
   2-18        SECTION 2.  Section 211.004(b) of the Local Government Code
   2-19  is repealed.
   2-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.