1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of certain municipalities to redesignate

 1-3     certain areas annexed for general purposes.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 43.136, Local Government Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:

 1-7           (h)  Notwithstanding any other law, including a municipal

 1-8     ordinance or charter provision, the governing body by ordinance may

 1-9     change the status of an area previously annexed for general

1-10     purposes to limited purpose annexation status governed by this

1-11     section if:

1-12                 (1)  the area previously annexed at any time was

1-13     eligible to be included within the municipal boundaries under

1-14     Subsection (b);

1-15                 (2)  the owners of the area petition the governing body

1-16     for the change in status; and

1-17                 (3)  the governing body includes the area in an

1-18     industrial district designated as provided by Subsection (g) or any

1-19     other law.

1-20           SECTION 2.  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     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3372 was passed by the House on May

         2, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3372 was passed by the Senate on May

         22, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor