By Krusee H.B. No. 620 75R2916 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring county approval of certain municipal 1-3 annexations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 43.034 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.034. COUNTY APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR MUNICIPAL 1-8 ANNEXATION IN CERTAIN AREAS. (a) This section applies only to a 1-9 municipality: 1-10 (1) that has a population of more than 250,000; and 1-11 (2) in which 90 percent of the population reside in 1-12 one county. 1-13 (b) The municipality may not annex an area that is located 1-14 outside the county in which most of the municipality's population 1-15 resides unless the municipality obtains the written approval of the 1-16 commissioners court of the county in which the area to be annexed 1-17 is located. 1-18 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act by the 1-19 addition of Section 43.034, Local Government Code, apply only to an 1-20 annexation for which the first hearing notice required by Section 1-21 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after the 1-22 effective date of this Act. An annexation for which the first 1-23 hearing notice is published before that date is governed by the law 1-24 in effect at the time the notice is published, and the former law 2-1 is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.