By Flores H.B. No. 3127
75R9178 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain annexations by Type B general-law
1-3 municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 43.025(d), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (d) If an annexation under this section would add area to
1-8 the municipality in excess of the territorial limit [The
1-9 municipality may not be enlarged under this section to exceed the
1-10 area requirements] established by Section 5.901, the municipality
1-11 may proceed with the annexation but the annexation does not expand
1-12 the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality under
1-13 Section 42.022.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.