1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1799
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 7, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; May 7, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Lindsay
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1799 in SECTION 1, amending Section 43.0751(m),
1-8 Local Government Code (Introduced version, page 1, line 22), by
1-9 striking "August 27" and substituting "September 15 [August 27],
1-10 1979".
1-11 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12 AN ACT
1-13 relating to strategic partnership agreements between certain local
1-14 governments.
1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16 SECTION 1. Subsection (m), Section 43.0751, Local Government
1-17 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-18 (m) A municipality that may annex a district for limited
1-19 purposes to implement a strategic partnership agreement under this
1-20 section shall not annex for full purposes any territory within a
1-21 district created pursuant to a consent agreement with that
1-22 municipality executed before August 27, 1979. The prohibition on
1-23 annexation established by this subsection shall expire on September
1-24 1, 1999 [1997], or on the date on or before which the municipality
1-25 and any district may have separately agreed that annexation would
1-26 not take place whichever is later.
1-27 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33 passage, and it is so enacted.
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