By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1376 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 regarding the annexation of certain areas located within certain 1-2 municipal utility districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, 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 WITHIN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL 1-7 UTILITY DISTRICTS. 1-8 (a) This section applies only to a home-rule municipality 1-9 that is located within an area the majority of which lies within a 1-10 county that has a population of less than 1,000,000. 1-11 (b) A home-rule municipality may annex an area located 1-12 within a municipal utility district only at such time that the 1-13 district is providing retail service to eighty percent (80%) or 1-14 more of the equivalent wastewater connection rights that the 1-15 district has reserved in the municipality's wastewater system for 1-16 the district's retail customers. 1-17 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act by the 1-18 addition of Section 43.0725, Local Government Code, apply only to 1-19 an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by 1-20 Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after 1-21 January 1, 1995. An annexation for which the first hearing notice 1-22 is published before that date is governed by the law in effect at 1-23 the time the notice is published, and the former law is continued 2-1 in effect for that purpose. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.