By:  Shapiro                                          S.B. No. 1227

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the establishment of a comprehensive plan by a

 1-2     municipality.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subtitle A, Title 7, Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Chapter 219 to read as follows:

 1-6                 CHAPTER 219.  MUNICIPAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS

 1-7           Sec. 219.001.  PURPOSE.  The powers granted under this

 1-8     chapter are for the purpose of promoting sound development of

 1-9     municipalities and promoting public health, safety, and welfare.

1-10           Sec. 219.002.  COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.  (a)  The governing body

1-11     of a municipality may adopt a comprehensive plan for the long-range

1-12     development of the municipality.  A municipality may define the

1-13     content and design of a comprehensive plan.

1-14           (b)  A comprehensive plan may:

1-15                 (1)  include but is not limited to provisions on land

1-16     use, transportation, and public facilities;

1-17                 (2)  consist of a single plan  or a coordinated set of

1-18     plans organized by subject and geographic area; and

1-19                 (3)  be used to coordinate and guide the establishment

1-20     of development regulations.

1-21           (c)  A municipality may define, in its charter or by

1-22     ordinance, the relationship between a comprehensive plan and

1-23     development regulations and may provide standards for determining

 2-1     the consistency required between a plan and development

 2-2     regulations.

 2-3           (d)  Land use assumptions adopted in a manner that complies

 2-4     with Subchapter C, Chapter 395, may be incorporated in a

 2-5     comprehensive plan.

 2-6           Sec. 219.003.  ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

 2-7     (a)  A comprehensive plan may be adopted or amended by ordinance

 2-8     following a hearing at which the public is given the opportunity to

 2-9     give testimony and present written evidence and, if one exists,

2-10     review by the municipality's planning commission or department.

2-11           (b)  A municipality may establish, in its charter or by

2-12     ordinance, procedures for adopting and amending a comprehensive

2-13     plan.

2-14           Sec. 219.004.  EFFECT ON OTHER MUNICIPAL PLANS.  This chapter

2-15     does not limit the ability of a municipality to prepare other

2-16     plans, policies, or strategies as required.

2-17           SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 211.004, Local Government

2-18     Code, is repealed.

2-19           SECTION 3.   The importance of this legislation and the

2-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-25     passage, and it is so enacted.