By Madden                                             H.B. No. 2639
       74R6597 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirements for annexation by a general-law
    1-3  municipality.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 43.033(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A general-law municipality may annex adjacent territory
    1-8  without the consent of any of the residents or voters of the area
    1-9  and without the consent of any of the owners of land in the area
   1-10  provided that the following conditions are met:
   1-11              (1)  the municipality has a population of 1,000 or more
   1-12  and is not eligible to adopt a home-rule charter;
   1-13              (2)  except for Section 43.054, the procedural rules
   1-14  prescribed by this chapter are met;
   1-15              (3)  the municipality must be providing the area with
   1-16  water or sewer service;
   1-17              (4)  the area does not include unoccupied territory in
   1-18  excess of one acre for each service address for water or <and>
   1-19  sewer service;
   1-20              (5)  the service plan requires that police and fire
   1-21  protection at a level consistent with protection provided within
   1-22  the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after
   1-23  the effective date of the annexation; and
   1-24              (6)  the municipality and the affected landowners have
    2-1  not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain time
    2-2  period.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section
    2-4  43.033(a), Local Government Code, apply only to an annexation for
    2-5  which the first hearing notice required by Section 43.052, Local
    2-6  Government Code, is published on or after the effective date of
    2-7  this Act.  An annexation for which the first hearing notice is
    2-8  published before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
    2-9  law in effect at the time the notice is published, and the prior
   2-10  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.