By Capelo                                             H.B. No. 1857
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                                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.