By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1376 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the annexation of certain areas located in certain 1-2 municipal utility districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 43.0725 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 43.0725. ANNEXATION OF AREAS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL 1-7 UTILITY DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to a home-rule 1-8 municipality that: 1-9 (1) has a population of more than 400,000; 1-10 (2) has a charter provision allowing limited-purpose 1-11 annexation; and 1-12 (3) has disannexed territory that was annexed for a 1-13 limited purpose. 1-14 (b) The municipality may annex an area located in a 1-15 municipal utility district for full purposes which is composed of 1-16 three or more non-contiguous tracts of land and which was created 1-17 prior to August 27, 1979, only if the district is providing retail 1-18 service to 75 percent or more of the equivalent wastewater 1-19 connection rights that the district has reserved in the 1-20 municipality's wastewater system for the district's retail 1-21 customers. 1-22 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-23 to an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by 2-1 Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after 2-2 January 1, 1995, and that has not been completed before the 2-3 effective date of this Act. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.