By Dutton                                             H.B. No. 1815
       74R4990 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the application of municipal ordinances in certain
    1-3  areas annexed by a municipality.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 43.0566 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.0566.  FAILURE OF MUNICIPALITY TO PROVIDE WATER OR
    1-8  SEWER SERVICES.  (a)  If a municipality fails to provide water or
    1-9  sewer services to an annexed area before the 10th anniversary
   1-10  following the date of annexation, a municipal ordinance or other
   1-11  municipal regulation has no effect in the annexed area until the
   1-12  municipality provides water and sewer services to the annexed area.
   1-13        (b)  Subsection (a) does not permit a municipality to
   1-14  discontinue providing any other municipal service to the annexed
   1-15  area.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to an annexed area for
   1-17  which the 10th anniversary of annexation occurs on or after the
   1-18  effective date of this Act.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.