1-1     By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1735

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; May 13, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 1;

 1-6     May 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1735                By:  Gallegos

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the authority of certain general-law municipalities to

1-11     annex additional areas.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,

1-14     is amended by adding Section 43.034 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 43.034.  AUTHORITY OF GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY TO ANNEX

1-16     AREA; CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  A Type A general-law municipality

1-17     may annex an adjacent area without the consent of any of the

1-18     residents or voters of the area and without the consent of any of

1-19     the owners of land in the area if:

1-20                 (1)  the municipality has a population of 3,000 or

1-21     less;

1-22                 (2)  the municipality completely surrounds the

1-23     territory in which the area is located;

1-24                 (3)  the municipality has enacted an ordinance

1-25     governing zoning;

1-26                 (4)  the procedural rules prescribed by this chapter

1-27     are met;

1-28                 (5)  the service plan requires that police and fire

1-29     protection at a level consistent with protection provided within

1-30     the municipality must be provided to the area within 10 days after

1-31     the effective date of the annexation; and

1-32                 (6)  the municipality and the affected landowners have

1-33     not entered an agreement to not annex the area for a certain

1-34     period.

1-35           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-40     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-41     passage, and it is so enacted.

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