1-1     By:  Torres (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)               H.B. No. 3372

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the authority of certain municipalities to redesignate

1-10     certain areas annexed for general purposes.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 43.136, Local Government Code, is amended

1-13     by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:

1-14           (h)  Notwithstanding any other law, including a municipal

1-15     ordinance or charter provision, the governing body by ordinance may

1-16     change the status of an area previously annexed for general

1-17     purposes to limited purpose annexation status governed by this

1-18     section if:

1-19                 (1)  the area previously annexed at any time was

1-20     eligible to be included within the municipal boundaries under

1-21     Subsection (b);

1-22                 (2)  the owners of the area petition the governing body

1-23     for the change in status; and

1-24                 (3)  the governing body includes the area in an

1-25     industrial district designated as provided by Subsection (g) or any

1-26     other law.

1-27           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.

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