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. 1-42 * * * * *