1-1     By:  Krusee (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)              H.B. No. 1028

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 1997;

 1-3     May 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 1; May 15, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to strategic partnership agreements between certain local

1-10     governments.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 43.0751(m), Local Government Code, is

1-13     amended to read as follows:

1-14           (m)  A municipality that may annex a district for limited

1-15     purposes to implement a strategic partnership agreement under this

1-16     section shall not annex for full purposes any territory within a

1-17     district created pursuant to a consent agreement with that

1-18     municipality executed before September 15 [August 27], 1979.  The

1-19     prohibition on annexation established by this subsection shall

1-20     expire on September 1, 1999 [1997], or on the date on or before

1-21     which the municipality and any district may have separately agreed

1-22     that annexation would not take place whichever is later.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.

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