By Shields H.B. No. 2792 74R7990 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the annexation of an area in certain home-rule 1-3 municipalities by certain general-law municipalities. 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 43.0315 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.0315. AUTHORITY OF SMALL GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY IN 1-8 URBAN COUNTY TO ANNEX CERTAIN AREA IN POPULOUS HOME-RULE 1-9 MUNICIPALITY. (a) This section applies only to the annexation of 1-10 an area that: 1-11 (1) is 25 acres or less in size; 1-12 (2) is located in a home-rule municipality with a 1-13 population of 900,000 or more located entirely in one county; and 1-14 (3) is adjacent to a general-law municipality with a 1-15 population of less than 3,500. 1-16 (b) The general-law municipality may annex the area if: 1-17 (1) the nearest police protection or fire protection 1-18 facility to all residential dwellings in the area is operated by 1-19 the general-law municipality; 1-20 (2) the nearest police or fire protection facility in 1-21 the home-rule municipality is more than four miles from the 1-22 residential dwellings in the area; and 1-23 (3) a majority of the registered voters petition the 1-24 governing body of the general-law municipality in writing to annex 2-1 the area. 2-2 (c) On or before the 30th day after the date the petition is 2-3 filed with the clerk or secretary of the general-law municipality, 2-4 the governing body of the municipality may grant or refuse the 2-5 petition. 2-6 (d) If the governing body grants the petition, the governing 2-7 body by ordinance may annex the area. All outstanding liabilities 2-8 of the area are assumed by the general-law municipality. The 2-9 general-law municipality shall assume the pro rata share of bond 2-10 obligations attributable to the area that were in existence at the 2-11 time the area was annexed by the general-law municipality and shall 2-12 pay annually the pro rata share to the home-rule municipality. 2-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.