By Lindsay S.B. No. 704
75R6491 MI-D
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.