By Saunders                                           H.B. No. 2759
       74R8008 DRH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to providing water and wastewater services to certain
    1-3  areas that are annexed for limited purposes.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 43.137 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.137.  CERTAIN WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICES PROVIDED
    1-8  TO AREA THAT IS ANNEXED FOR LIMITED PURPOSES.  (a)  A municipality
    1-9  that owns or operates a water or wastewater system and that has the
   1-10  authority to annex an area for limited purposes under this
   1-11  subchapter shall make, not later than January 1, 1996, water and
   1-12  wastewater services available to a point on the perimeter of a
   1-13  tract of land that qualifies under Subsection (b).
   1-14        (b)  A tract of land qualifies under this section if, on
   1-15  January 1, 1995, the tract had, for the previous five years,
   1-16  continuously met the following conditions:
   1-17              (1)  the size of the tract was 100 or more contiguous
   1-18  acres under common or affiliated ownership;
   1-19              (2)  the tract was annexed for limited purposes by the
   1-20  municipality;
   1-21              (3)  the tract was located:
   1-22                    (A)  within one-fourth mile of an existing water
   1-23  or wastewater line of the municipality; and
   1-24                    (B)  in the certified area to which the
    2-1  municipality was required to provide water and wastewater services
    2-2  under Section 13.250, Water Code;
    2-3              (4)  there was a preliminary subdivision plat covering
    2-4  the entire tract approved by the municipal authority responsible
    2-5  for approving the plat;
    2-6              (5)  there was a site plan for the tract approved by
    2-7  the governing body of the municipality; and
    2-8              (6)  the tract had been permanently zoned as a planned
    2-9  unit development.
   2-10        (c)  The water and wastewater services made available under
   2-11  Subsection (a) must be adequate to meet the uses proposed for the
   2-12  tract under the approved preliminary subdivision plat as of January
   2-13  1, 1995.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.