1-1     By:  Crabb (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)                H.B. No. 2900

 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 11, Nays 0; May 15, 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 municipality and a county to

1-10     regulate the subdivision of land in the extraterritorial

1-11     jurisdiction of a municipality.

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

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 242.001(b), Local Government Code, is

1-14     amended to read as follows:

1-15           (b)  For an area in a municipality's extraterritorial

1-16     jurisdiction, as defined by Section 212.001, a plat may not be

1-17     filed with the county clerk without the approval of both the

1-18     municipality and the county.  However, if one of those governmental

1-19     entities requires a plat to be filed for the subdivision of a

1-20     particular tract of land in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of

1-21     the municipality and the other governmental entity does not require

1-22     the filing of a plat for that subdivision, the authority

1-23     responsible for approving plats for the governmental entity that

1-24     does not require the filing shall issue on request of the

1-25     subdivider a written certification stating that a plat is not

1-26     required to be filed for that subdivision of the land.  The

1-27     certification must be attached to a plat required to be filed under

1-28     this subsection.

1-29           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-30     applies only to a plat for a subdivision of land that is filed on

1-31     or after that date.

1-32           SECTION 3.  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.

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