By Capelo H.B. No. 1857
76R6044 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to subdivision platting requirements in certain counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 232.021(1), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (1) "Affected county" means:
1-7 (A) a county:
1-8 (i) [(A)] that has a per capita income
1-9 that averaged 25 percent below the state average for the most
1-10 recent three consecutive years for which statistics are available
1-11 and an unemployment rate that averaged 25 percent above the state
1-12 average for the most recent three consecutive years for which
1-13 statistics are available; and
1-14 (ii) [(B)] any part of which is within 50
1-15 miles of an international border; or
1-16 (B) the unincorporated area of a county if:
1-17 (i) the unincorporated area has a per
1-18 capita income that averaged 25 percent below the state average for
1-19 the most recent three consecutive years for which statistics are
1-20 available and an unemployment rate that averaged 25 percent above
1-21 the state average for the most recent three consecutive years for
1-22 which statistics are available; and
1-23 (ii) any part of the county is within 150
1-24 miles of an international border.
2-1 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
2-2 to a subdivision of property that is completed on or after the
2-3 effective date of this Act. For purposes of this Act, a
2-4 subdivision of property is completed before the effective date of
2-5 this Act if the subdivision plat is filed before that date in the
2-6 real property records of the appropriate county.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.