By Hamric, Hilbert, Brady                             H.B. No. 1344
       74R1671 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that certain home-rule municipalities
    1-3  obtain consent of the voters in certain subdivisions before
    1-4  annexing the subdivisions.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
    1-7  is amended by adding Section 43.106 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 43.106.  ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN SUBDIVISIONS BY POPULOUS
    1-9  HOME-RULE MUNICIPALITY.  (a)  This section applies only to the
   1-10  annexation of a subdivision:
   1-11              (1)  in which more than 1,000 registered voters reside;
   1-12              (2)  that has been in existence for at least 10 years
   1-13  and for which, at the time of the creation of the subdivision, a
   1-14  plat was prepared and filed as required by law; and
   1-15              (3)  that has water, wastewater, electricity, and solid
   1-16  waste collection services 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 60 days preceding the date the proceedings
   1-23  are instituted.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to an annexation of all or
    2-1  part of a subdivision for which annexation proceedings are
    2-2  instituted on or after the effective date of this Act.  Proceedings
    2-3  instituted before the effective date of this Act are governed by
    2-4  the law in effect when the proceedings were instituted, and the
    2-5  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.