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.