By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1451

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the addition of territory to or exclusion of territory

 1-2     from a county development district.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 312.638, Tax Code, is amended by amending

 1-5     Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           (b)  If the commissioners court unanimously determines from

 1-8     the evidence that the best interests of the persons and property in

 1-9     the district will be served by adding or excluding land, the

1-10     commissioners court shall enter in its records the appropriate

1-11     findings [and order adding or excluding land].

1-12           (c)  If the commissioners court makes a finding to exclude

1-13     land from the district, the court shall enter an order excluding

1-14     the land.

1-15           (d)  If the commissioners court makes a finding to add land

1-16     to the district, the commissioners court shall call and hold an

1-17     election for that purpose in the territory to be added to the

1-18     district and an election in the existing territory of the district.

1-19     The elections must be held on the same date.  The commissioners

1-20     court shall set the date of the elections in accordance with

1-21     Section 41.001, Election Code.  The commissioners court shall order

1-22     the expansion of the district only if a majority of the voters

1-23     voting in each election approve the expansion of the district.

 2-1           (e)  The ballots for the elections required under Subsection

 2-2     (d) shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the

 2-3     proposition:  "The inclusion  of (briefly describe additional area)

 2-4     in the ________ County Development District No._____."

 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.