By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 759
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to municipal comprehensive plans.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Title 7, Subtitle A of the Local Government Code
    1-4  is amended by adding Chapter 210 to read as follows:
    1-5             Chapter 210.  MUNICIPAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS.
    1-6        Sec. 210.001.  PURPOSE.  The authority and powers granted
    1-7  under this chapter are for the purpose of promoting sound
    1-8  development of cities and promoting public health, safety, and
    1-9  general welfare.
   1-10        Sec. 210.002.  COMPREHENSIVE PLANS GENERALLY.  (a)  The
   1-11  governing body of a municipality may adopt a comprehensive plan for
   1-12  the long-range development of the city.  Where adopted under the
   1-13  authority of this chapter, the scope of a comprehensive plan shall
   1-14  include, but is not limited to, land use, transportation and public
   1-15  facilities.  A comprehensive plan may be a single plan or may
   1-16  consist of a coordinated set of plans organized by subject and
   1-17  geographic area.  A city may define the exact content and design of
   1-18  a comprehensive plan.
   1-19        (b)  A comprehensive plan may be used to coordinate and guide
   1-20  the establishment of development regulations.  A city may define
   1-21  within its charter or by ordinance the relationship between a
   1-22  comprehensive plan and development regulations, including providing
   1-23  standards for determining the consistency required between a plan
    2-1  and development regulations.
    2-2        (c)  A comprehensive plan adopted under the authority of this
    2-3  chapter and complying with the substantive provisions of the Texas
    2-4  Local Government Code Section 395.045 may be used in lieu of
    2-5  separately adopted land use assumptions required for the enactment
    2-6  of impact fees.
    2-7        Sec. 210.003.  ADOPTION AND AMENDMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE
    2-8  PLAN.  (a)  A comprehensive plan may be adopted or amended by
    2-9  ordinance of the governing body of a municipality following a
   2-10  public hearing and review by the city's planning commission where
   2-11  established.
   2-12        (b)  A city may establish by charter or ordinance procedures
   2-13  for adopting and amending a comprehensive plan.
   2-14        Sec. 210.004.  OTHER MUNICIPAL PLANS.  This chapter does not
   2-15  limit the ability of a city to prepare other plans, policies, or
   2-16  strategies as it may require.
   2-17        SECTION 2.  Section 211.004(b) of the Local Government Code
   2-18  is repealed.
   2-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.