1-1     By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 307

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 27, 1997; January 29, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; March 24, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-6     March 24, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 307                    By:  Madla

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to annexation service plan requirements for certain

1-11     municipalities.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 43.056, Local Government

1-14     Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-15           (e)  A service plan may not:

1-16                 (1)  require the creation of another political

1-17     subdivision;

1-18                 (2)  require a landowner in the area to fund the

1-19     capital improvements necessary to provide municipal services in a

1-20     manner inconsistent with Chapter 395 unless otherwise agreed to by

1-21     the landowner; [or]

1-22                 (3)  provide fewer services or lower levels of services

1-23     in the area:

1-24                       (A)  than were in existence in the area

1-25     immediately preceding the date of the annexation; or

1-26                       (B)  than are otherwise available in other parts

1-27     of the municipality with land uses and population densities similar

1-28     to those reasonably contemplated or projected in the area; or

1-29                 (4)  in a municipality with a population of more than

1-30     500,000, the majority of which is located in a county with a square

1-31     mileage of more than 1,200, result in a reduced ratio of

1-32     firefighters, a reduced ratio of emergency medical personnel, or a

1-33     reduced ratio of police officers, excluding hazardous materials

1-34     response team personnel, volunteer firefighters, and reserve police

1-35     officers, per capita in the municipality than the ratio that

1-36     existed immediately before the date of annexation.

1-37           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only

1-38     to an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by

1-39     Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after the

1-40     effective date of this Act.  An annexation for which the first

1-41     hearing notice is published before that date is governed by the law

1-42     in effect at the time the notice is published, and the former law

1-43     is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-44           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-45     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-46     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-47     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-48     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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