1-1 By: Hightower (Senate Sponsor - Nixon) H.B. No. 2345 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997; 1-3 May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1; May 16, 1997, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the authority of a general-law municipality to annex 1-10 additional areas. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 43.034 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 43.034. AUTHORITY OF GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY TO ANNEX 1-15 AREA; CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. A general-law municipality may annex 1-16 adjacent territory without the consent of any of the residents or 1-17 voters of the area and without the consent of any of the owners of 1-18 land in the area if: 1-19 (1) the municipality has a population of 700-1,000, 1-20 part of whose boundary is part of the shoreline of a lake whose 1-21 normal surface area is 75,000 acres or greater and which is located 1-22 completely within the State of Texas; 1-23 (2) the procedural rules prescribed by this chapter 1-24 are met; 1-25 (3) the service plan requires that police and fire 1-26 protection at a level consistent with protection provided within 1-27 the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after 1-28 the effective date of the annexation; and 1-29 (4) the municipality and the affected landowners have 1-30 not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain 1-31 period. 1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * *