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.