By Hightower                                          H.B. No. 2345

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of a general-law municipality to annex

 1-3     additional areas.

 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.  AUTHORITY OF GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY TO ANNEX

 1-8     AREA; CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  A general-law municipality may annex

 1-9     adjacent territory without the consent of any of the residents or

1-10     voters of the area and without the consent of any of the owners of

1-11     land in the area if:

1-12                 (1)  the municipality has a population of more than 700

1-13     but less than 1,000;

1-14                 (2)  the procedural rules prescribed by this chapter

1-15     are met;

1-16                 (3)  the service plan requires that police and fire

1-17     protection at a level consistent with protection provided within

1-18     the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after

1-19     the effective date of the annexation; and

1-20                 (4)  the municipality and the affected landowners have

1-21     not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain

1-22     period.

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

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

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.

 2-6                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1

 2-7     In HB 2345 strike (1) in Sec. 43.034 on lines 12-13 and insert the

 2-8     following:

 2-9           (1)  the municipality has a population of 700-1,000, part of

2-10     whose boundary is part of the shoreline of a lake whose normal

2-11     surface area is 75,000 acres or greater and which is located

2-12     completely within the State of Texas;

2-13                                                                   Bosse