By Wentworth S.B. No. 1791 75R6838 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the annexation of a portion of certain municipal 1-3 utility districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 43.0725 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.0725. ANNEXATION OF AREAS OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL 1-8 UTILITY DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to a municipal 1-9 utility district that receives wholesale wastewater service from a 1-10 municipality under an agreement between the municipality and the 1-11 district or developers of the district executed under Section 1-12 54.016, Water Code. 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 wholesale wastewater service unless the district is 1-16 providing retail service to 80 percent or more of the equivalent 1-17 wastewater connection rights that the district has reserved in the 1-18 municipality's wastewater system for the district's customers. 1-19 (c) Subsection (b) does not apply to an annexation if: 1-20 (1) a petition requesting annexation is filed with the 1-21 municipality that is signed by a majority of the qualified voters 1-22 of the district and the owners of at least 50 percent of the land 1-23 in the district; or 1-24 (2) the agreement described by Subsection (a) states 2-1 that the execution of the agreement begins the process of 2-2 annexation. 2-3 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 2-4 to an annexation for which the first hearing notice required by 2-5 Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after 2-6 January 1, 1997, and that has not been completed before the 2-7 effective date of this Act. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.