1-1     By:  Smith (Senate Sponsor - Harris)                   H.B. No. 116
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to judicial review of a decision by a municipal board of
1-10     adjustment.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 211.011(a), Local Government Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  Any of the following persons may present to a district
1-15     court, county court, or county court at law [of record] a verified
1-16     petition stating that the decision of the board of adjustment is
1-17     illegal in whole or in part and specifying the grounds of the
1-18     illegality:
1-19                 (1)  a person aggrieved by a decision of the board;
1-20                 (2)  a taxpayer; or
1-21                 (3)  an officer, department, board, or bureau of the
1-22     municipality.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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