By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1939 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to limiting the area that may be included in the 1-2 extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain municipalities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Local Government Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 42.026 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 42.026. LIMITATION ON EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF 1-7 CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to a 1-8 home-rule municipality located in whole or in part in a county with 1-9 a population of 240,000 or less. 1-10 (b) The extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality 1-11 does not include territory: 1-12 (1) located outside the county in which a majority of 1-13 the land area of the municipality is located; and 1-14 (2) located in a county with a population of 70,000 or 1-15 less. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.