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.

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