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.
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