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. _______________________________ _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor