By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1397
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the release of extraterritorial jurisdiction by certain
    1-2  municipalities and the inclusion of the released territory in the
    1-3  extraterritorial jurisdiction of another municipality.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Sections 42.025 and 42.026 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 42.025.  RELEASE OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION BY
    1-8  CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  In this section:
    1-9              (1)  "Municipality" means an incorporated city, town,
   1-10  or village to which Section 16A of the Municipal Airports Act
   1-11  (Article 46d-1 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) applies.
   1-12              (2)  "Airport Footprint Property" means any tract of
   1-13  land located in whole our part within one half mile of a proposed
   1-14  municipal airport boundary for which a contract for land
   1-15  acquisition services was awarded by the municipality but through
   1-16  which land was not acquired to provide a replacement airport for
   1-17  the municipality, and any contiguous land under the same ownership.
   1-18        (b)  The owner of an airport footprint property may petition
   1-19  the clerk of a municipality by certified mail for the release of
   1-20  that property from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the
   1-21  municipality within one year of the effective date of this section.
   1-22  The property shall be released from the extraterritorial
   1-23  jurisdiction of the municipality without any financial charge or
    2-1  fee to the owner by the municipality ten days after the petition is
    2-2  received by the clerk of the municipality.
    2-3        Sec. 42.026.  INCLUSION OF PROPERTY RELEASED FROM THE
    2-4  EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF A MUNICIPALITY IN THE
    2-5  EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF ANOTHER MUNICIPALITY.
    2-6  Property released from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a
    2-7  municipality under Section 42.025 of this Subchapter may be
    2-8  included in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality
    2-9  located in the same county as and closest to the property by the
   2-10  written consent of the property owner and the agreement of the
   2-11  governing body of the municipality.
   2-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.