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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