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.