By Hilderbran                                   H.B. No. 3240

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the disannexation of an area by a general-law

 1-3     municipality.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 43.033, Local Government Code, is amended

 1-6     by amending Subsection (b) and by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           (b)  If, after one year but before three years from the

 1-9     passage of an ordinance annexing an area under this section, a

1-10     majority of the landowners or registered voters in the area vote by

1-11     petition submitted to the municipality for disannexation, the

1-12     municipality shall immediately disannex the area.  If the

1-13     municipality disannexes the area under this subsection, the

1-14     municipality may discontinue providing the area with water and

1-15     sewer service only if the municipality has provided all the capital

1-16     improvements for the water and sewer service in the disannexed

1-17     area.

1-18           (c)  An area disannexed under Subsection (b), or any part of

1-19     that area, may not be reannexed by the municipality before the

1-20     fifth anniversary of the disannexation.

1-21           (d)  A municipality may not collect any ad valorem taxes from

1-22     any part of an area disannexed under Subsection (b) for the tax

1-23     year in which the municipality disannexes the area.

1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a disannexation under

 2-1     Section 43.033(b), Local Government Code, that occurs on or after

 2-2     the effective date of this Act.

 2-3           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.