By Green H.B. No. 1667 76R6142 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring county approval of certain municipal 1-3 annexations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 43.035 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.035. COUNTY APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR MUNICIPAL 1-8 ANNEXATION IN CERTAIN AREAS. A municipality may not annex an area 1-9 that is located outside the county in which the municipality's city 1-10 hall is located unless the municipality obtains the written 1-11 approval of the commissioners court of the county in which the area 1-12 to be annexed is located. 1-13 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act by the 1-14 addition of Section 43.035, Local Government Code, apply only to an 1-15 annexation for which the first hearing notice required by Section 1-16 43.052, Local Government Code, is published on or after the 1-17 effective date of this Act. An annexation for which the first 1-18 hearing notice is published before that date is governed by the law 1-19 in effect at the time the notice is published, and the former law 1-20 is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.