By Green                                              H.B. No. 1667
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                                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.