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.