1-1     By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1451

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;

 1-4     April 16, 1997, rereferred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-5     Relations; April 24, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-6     vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 24, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the addition of territory to or exclusion of territory

1-10     from a county development district.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 312.638, Tax Code, is amended by amending

1-13     Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as

1-14     follows:

1-15           (b)  If the commissioners court unanimously determines from

1-16     the evidence that the best interests of the persons and property in

1-17     the district will be served by adding or excluding land, the

1-18     commissioners court shall enter in its records the appropriate

1-19     findings [and order adding or excluding land].

1-20           (c)  If the commissioners court makes a finding to exclude

1-21     land from the district, the court shall enter an order excluding

1-22     the land.

1-23           (d)  If the commissioners court makes a finding to add land

1-24     to the district, the commissioners court shall call and hold an

1-25     election for that purpose in the territory to be added to the

1-26     district and an election in the existing territory of the district.

1-27     The elections must be held on the same date.  The commissioners

1-28     court shall set the date of the elections in accordance with

1-29     Section 41.001, Election Code.  The commissioners court shall order

1-30     the expansion of the district only if a majority of the voters

1-31     voting in each election approve the expansion of the district.

1-32           (e)  The ballots for the elections required under Subsection

1-33     (d) shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the

1-34     proposition:  "The inclusion  of (briefly describe additional area)

1-35     in the ________ County Development District No._____."

1-36           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-41     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-42     passage, and it is so enacted.

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