By Madla                                         S.B. No. 307

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to annexation service plan requirements for certain

 1-3     municipalities.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 43.056(e), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (e)  A service plan may not:

 1-8                 (1)  require the creation of another political

 1-9     subdivision;

1-10                 (2)  require a landowner in the area to fund the

1-11     capital improvements necessary to provide municipal services in a

1-12     manner inconsistent with Chapter 395 unless otherwise agreed to by

1-13     the landowner; [or]

1-14                 (3)  provide fewer services or lower levels of services

1-15     in the area:

1-16                       (A)  than were in existence in the area

1-17     immediately preceding the date of the annexation; or

1-18                       (B)  than are otherwise available in other parts

1-19     of the municipality with land uses and population densities similar

1-20     to those reasonably contemplated or projected in the area; or

1-21                 (4)  in a municipality with a population of more than

1-22     one million, result in a reduced ratio of firefighters, a reduced

1-23     ratio of emergency medical personnel, or a reduced ratio of police

1-24     officers, excluding hazardous materials response team personnel,

 2-1     volunteer firefighters, and reserve police officers, per capita in

 2-2     the municipality than the ratio that existed immediately before the

 2-3     date of annexation.

 2-4           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only

 2-5     to an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by

 2-6     Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after the

 2-7     effective date of this Act.  An annexation for which the first

 2-8     hearing notice is published before that date is governed by the law

 2-9     in effect at the time the notice is published, and the former law

2-10     is continued in effect for that purpose.

2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.