1-1     By:  Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)                H.B. No. 1280

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 2, 1997, reported adversely, with

 1-5     favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11,

 1-6     Nays 0; May 2, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1280                   By:  Lucio

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the delegation of municipal authority to determine

1-11     compliance with certain plat requirements

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 212.0115, Local Government Code, is

1-14     amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:

1-15           (i)  The governing body of a municipality may delegate, in

1-16     writing, the ability to perform any of the responsibilities under

1-17     this section to one or more persons.  A binding decision of the

1-18     person or persons under this subsection is appealable to the

1-19     municipal authority responsible for approving plats.

1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.

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