By Lindsay S.B. No. 236 75R3951 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the right of voters in a municipality to participate in 1-3 municipal elections. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 43.905 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.905. EXTENSION OF VOTING RIGHTS TO RESIDENTS OF 1-8 ANNEXED AREA. (a) A municipality that annexes an area under 1-9 Subchapters B-E of this chapter may not conduct an election unless 1-10 the qualified voters of the area annexed are allowed to vote in the 1-11 election. 1-12 (b) If a municipality holds an election and the residents of 1-13 an annexed area described in Subsection (a) are not allowed to vote 1-14 in the election, the results of the election are void. 1-15 (c) This section does not apply to: 1-16 (1) an election on the question of the creation of a 1-17 municipal special district or authority in which no part of the 1-18 area annexed is part of the proposed special district or authority 1-19 and the creation of which would not create a direct liability for 1-20 which a resident of the annexed area would be requested to pay in 1-21 any way, including through the payment of any municipal tax; 1-22 (2) a local option election conducted under Chapter 1-23 251, Alcoholic Beverage Code, in which no part of the area annexed 1-24 is part of the area affected by the election; or 2-1 (3) an election for a single-member district of the 2-2 municipality, in which no part of the area annexed is part of the 2-3 area within the district. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.