LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 28, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Gary Walker, Chair, House Committee on Land &
               Resource Management
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1445  by Turner, Bob (Relating to the authority of
               municipalities and counties to regulate subdivisions in
               the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality.),
               Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
The bill would prohibit a municipality and a county from both regulating
a subdivision located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction
(ETJ).  The municipality and county, on or before September 1, 2002,
would be required to enter into a written agreement that would identify
which governmental entity would be authorized to regulate subdivision
plats and approve related permits in the ETJ.  Until an agreement is
reached, the municipality would regulate plats and permits within the ETJ
and the county would regulate the subdivisions outside the ETJ.

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, CL, DB