LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 16, 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 authority of
               municipalities and counties to regulate subdivisions in a
               municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.), As
               Introduced
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
The bill would provide that a municipality may regulate certain
subdivisions in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ)
located wholly in the municipality's annexation plan if the subdivision
was included in the plan at the time the plat was filed.  Additionally, a
county would be allowed to regulate subdivisions only if all or part of
the subdivision was not included in the municipality's annexation plan at
the time the application for the plat was filed.

Under current law, both the county and the city review subdivision plats
in the city's ETJ and the more stringent standards of the two apply to
regulation of the development. The proposed change in statute would
dispense with dual review.

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