By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1271
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the adjustment of the extraterritorial jurisdiction
    1-2  boundary between certain cities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 42.903, Local Government Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
    1-6        (f)  If a portion of a tract of land is located in the
    1-7  extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality that has adopted an
    1-8  ordinance or resolution under Subsection (b) the property owner may
    1-9  petition the adopting municipality to include a part of the tract
   1-10  that is within another municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction
   1-11  into the adopting municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
   1-12  Upon presentation of the petition, the governing body of the
   1-13  adopting municipality may adopt an ordinance or resolution to
   1-14  include the tract within its extraterritorial jurisdiction.  The
   1-15  tract of land is hereby transferred to the adopting municipality's
   1-16  extraterritorial jurisdiction, and all rules and ordinances of the
   1-17  adopting municipalities extraterritorial jurisdiction shall apply
   1-18  to the transferred tract of land.
   1-19        (g)  Application of Subsection (f) is limited to tracts of
   1-20  land that qualify for a petition on the date Subsection (f) takes
   1-21  effect.  Owners of these tracts of land have one year from the
   1-22  effective date to file their petitions with the adopting
   1-23  municipality.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.