1-1        By:  Barrientos                                 S.B. No. 1397
    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. 1397                  By:  Leedom
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the release of extraterritorial jurisdiction over a
   1-11  tract of land by certain municipalities and the inclusion of that
   1-12  tract in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of another municipality.
   1-13        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-14        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Local Government Code,
   1-15  is amended by adding Section 42.024 to read as follows:
   1-16        Sec. 42.024.  RELEASE OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION BY
   1-17  CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  In this section, "eligible property"
   1-18  means any portion of a contiguous tract of land:
   1-19              (1)  that is located in the extraterritorial
   1-20  jurisdiction of a municipality within one-half mile of the
   1-21  territory of a proposed municipal airport;
   1-22              (2)  for which a contract for land acquisition services
   1-23  was awarded by the municipality; and
   1-24              (3)  that has not been acquired through the contract
   1-25  described by Subdivision (2) for the proposed municipal airport.
   1-26        (b)  The owner of eligible property may petition the
   1-27  municipality to release the property from the municipality's
   1-28  extraterritorial jurisdiction not later than June 1, 1996.  The
   1-29  petition must be filed with the secretary or clerk of the
   1-30  municipality.
   1-31        (c)  Not later than the 10th day after the date the secretary
   1-32  or clerk receives a petition under Subsection (b), the municipality
   1-33  by resolution shall release the eligible property from the
   1-34  extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality.
   1-35        (d)  Eligible property that is released from the
   1-36  extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality under Subsection
   1-37  (c) may be included in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of another
   1-38  municipality if:
   1-39              (1)  any part of the other municipality is located in
   1-40  the same county as the property; and
   1-41              (2)  the other municipality and the owner agree to the
   1-42  inclusion of the property in the extraterritorial jurisdiction.
   1-43        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-44  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-45  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-46  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-47  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-48  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-49  passage, and it is so enacted.
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