By Williams H.B. No. 679 76R2080 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the transfer of land from the extraterritorial 1-3 jurisdiction of one municipality to the extraterritorial 1-4 jurisdiction of another municipality when the land is also in a 1-5 municipal utility district. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Local Government Code, 1-8 is amended by adding Section 42.026 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 42.026. APPROVAL NECESSARY FOR TRANSFER OF 1-10 EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION LOCATED IN MUNICIPAL UTILITY 1-11 DISTRICT. The extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality does 1-12 not include and may not be extended to an area that another 1-13 municipality has released from its extraterritorial jurisdiction 1-14 and that is located in a municipal utility district, without the 1-15 approval of the governing body of the municipal utility district. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 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.