1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1376 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 20, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 27, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; 1-6 April 27, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1376 By: Wentworth 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the annexation of certain areas located in certain 1-11 municipal utility districts. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-14 is amended by adding Section 43.0725 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 43.0725. ANNEXATION OF AREAS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL 1-16 UTILITY DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to a home-rule 1-17 municipality that: 1-18 (1) has a population of more than 400,000; 1-19 (2) has a charter provision allowing limited-purpose 1-20 annexation; and 1-21 (3) has disannexed territory that was annexed for a 1-22 limited purpose. 1-23 (b) The municipality may annex an area located in a 1-24 municipal utility district only if the district is providing retail 1-25 service to 80 percent or more of the equivalent wastewater 1-26 connection rights that the district has reserved in the 1-27 municipality's wastewater system for the district's retail 1-28 customers. 1-29 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-30 to an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by 1-31 Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after 1-32 January 1, 1995, and that has not been completed before the 1-33 effective date of this Act. 1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-40 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-41 * * * * *