By Wentworth                                    S.B. No. 1799

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to strategic partnership agreements between certain local

 1-3     governments.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 43.0751(m), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (m)  A municipality that may annex a district for limited

 1-8     purposes to implement a strategic partnership agreement under this

 1-9     section shall not annex for full purposes any territory within a

1-10     district created pursuant to a consent agreement with that

1-11     municipality executed before August 27, 1979.  The prohibition on

1-12     annexation established by this subsection shall expire on September

1-13     1, 1999 [1997], or on the date on or before which the municipality

1-14     and any district may have separately agreed that annexation would

1-15     not take place whichever is later.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.