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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