By Hamric                                             H.B. No. 1009
         76R1875 CAG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to voter approval of certain municipal annexations.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 43.0215 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 43.0215.  VOTER APPROVAL OF ANNEXATION REQUIRED IN
 1-7     CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  This section applies only to a
 1-8     municipality with a population of 1.6 million or more.
 1-9           (b)  The municipality may not annex an area for full or
1-10     limited purposes unless:
1-11                 (1)  the municipality holds in the area an election, at
1-12     which the qualified voters of the area may vote, on the question of
1-13     the annexation; and
1-14                 (2)  a majority of the votes received at the election
1-15     approve the annexation.
1-16           (c)  This section does not apply to an annexation of an area
1-17     if:
1-18                 (1)  no qualified voters reside in the area; or
1-19                 (2)  the annexation is authorized by or subject to
1-20     another section of this chapter, other than Section 43.021.
1-21           (d)  The municipality shall pay for the cost of holding the
1-22     election.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by Section 43.0215, Local
1-24     Government Code, as added by this Act, apply only to an annexation
 2-1     proceeding that is in process on, or that begins on or after,
 2-2     September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.