By Madla S.B. No. 307
75R4415 PAM-D
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.