By Yost                                               H.B. No. 2489
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  regarding the annexation of certain areas located within certain
    1-3  municipal utility districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 43.0725 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.0725.  ANNEXATION OF AREAS WITHIN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL
    1-8  UTILITY DISTRICTS.
    1-9        (a)  This section applies only to a home-rule municipality
   1-10  that is located within an area the majority of which lies within a
   1-11  county that has a population of less than 1,000,000.
   1-12        (b)  A home-rule municipality may annex an area located
   1-13  within a municipal utility district only at such time that the
   1-14  district is providing retail service to eighty percent (80%) or
   1-15  more of the equivalent wastewater connection rights that the
   1-16  district has reserved in the municipality's wastewater system for
   1-17  the district's retail customers.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act by the
   1-19  addition of Section 43.0725, Local Government Code, apply only to
   1-20  an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by
   1-21  Section 45.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after
   1-22  January 1, 1995.  An annexation for which the first hearing notice
   1-23  is published before that date is governed by the law in effect at
    2-1  the time the notice is published, and the former law is continued
    2-2  in effect for that purpose.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and imperative public meeting necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.