By Lindsay                                       S.B. No. 704

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to limited-purpose annexation by certain home-rule

 1-3     municipalities.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 43.121(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The governing body of a home-rule municipality with more

 1-8     than 225,000 inhabitants[, if authorized under its home-rule

 1-9     charter,] by ordinance may annex an area for the limited purposes

1-10     of applying its planning, zoning, health, and safety ordinances in

1-11     the area.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.