By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1791 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the annexation of a portion of certain municipal 1-2 utility districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 43.0725 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 43.0725. ANNEXATION OF AREAS OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL 1-7 UTILITY DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to a municipal 1-8 utility district created by an agreement with a municipality under 1-9 Section 54.016, Water Code, executed before January 1, 1997, that 1-10 receives wastewater service from the municipality under the 1-11 agreement and one or more subsequent wastewater agreements between 1-12 the municipality and the district or developers of the district. 1-13 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a municipality may 1-14 not annex any portion of a municipal utility district to which it 1-15 provides wastewater service unless the district is providing retail 1-16 wastewater service to 80 percent or more of the equivalent 1-17 wastewater connection rights that the municipality has allocated to 1-18 the district under the agreements described by Subsection (a) for 1-19 the collection and transmission of wastewater. 1-20 (c) Subsection (b) does not apply to an annexation if: 1-21 (1) a petition requesting annexation is filed with the 1-22 municipality that is signed by a majority of the qualified voters 1-23 of the district and the owners of at least 50 percent of the land 2-1 in the district; or 2-2 (2) the agreement described by Subsection (a) states 2-3 that the execution of the agreement begins the process of 2-4 annexation. 2-5 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 2-6 to an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by 2-7 Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after 2-8 January 1, 1997, and that has not been completed before the 2-9 effective date of this Act. 2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.