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. 1-34 * * * * *