By Lewis of Orange H.B. No. 3178 75R6524 PAM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to limiting the area that may be included within the 1-3 extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 42.026 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 42.026. LIMITATION ON EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF 1-8 CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to a 1-9 home-rule municipality located in whole or in part in a county 1-10 with a population of 240,000 or less. 1-11 (b) The extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality 1-12 does not include: 1-13 (1) territory located outside the county in which a 1-14 majority of the land area of the municipality is located; and 1-15 (2) territory separated from the municipality's 1-16 corporate boundaries by a navigable stream. 1-17 (c) In this section, "navigable stream" has the meaning 1-18 assigned by Section 21.001, Natural Resources Code. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 2-1 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-2 Amend H.B. 3178 as follows: 2-3 On page 1, line 9 strike "located in whole or in part" and 2-4 substitute "the majority of which is located". 2-5 Turner of Coleman