SRC-TNM S.B. 934 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 934
By: Lindsay
Intergovernmental Relations
3-14-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, areas not in direct contact with a municipality's boundaries
can be annexed.  Because the language used in reference to  annexation
under the Local Government Code is "directly adjacent," a city is able to
extend its extraterritorial jurisdiction and choose a prime area while
avoiding unincorporated areas.  S.B. 934 would control the growth of a
municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction by preventing annexations
which are not in direct contact with a municipality's boundaries. 
   
PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 934 outlines provisions regarding restrictions on a
municipality's authority to annex certain property. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 43.051, Local Government Code, as follows:

Sec. 43.051. New heading: AUTHORITY TO ANNEX. Prohibits a municipality
from annexing an area in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the
municipality if the area is not directly adjacent to the boundaries of the
municipality.  Provides that an area is not directly adjacent to the
boundaries of a municipality if the area is adjacent to the boundaries of
the municipality by a strip of area in the municipality that follows the
course of a road, highway, river, stream, or creek, and that has a width
of less than 5,000 feet at any point in the strip of area. 

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1997.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.