H.B. 2475 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


H.B. 2475
By: Callegari
Land & Resource Management
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under the provisions of a strategic partnership agreement, a municipality
and a utility district may authorize the limited annexation of portions of
the district.  Currently, many utility districts are made up of
non-contiguous tracts of land that are separated by the right of way of a
roadway or drainage course that existed before the district's creation.
In such cases, a limited purpose annexation performed in connection with a
strategic partnership agreement may include portions of publiclyowned land
(i.e. right of way) in order to establish contiguity.  Under current law,
a municipality must treat publicly-owned land in the same way that it
would treat privately-owned land, and annex it for general purposes within
three years.   

H.B. 2475 exempts state, federal, or local property located within a
utility district participating in a strategic partnership agreement from
the requirement that the municipality annex the property for general
purposes within three years. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 

ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 43.123, Local Government Code, as follows:

Exempts federal, state and local property located outside of a water
control and improvement district or a municipal utility district that has
been annexed for limited purposes in connection with a strategic
partnership agreement from the three year deadline for a municipality to
annex the area within the district for general purposes. 

SECTION 2.  Amends Subsection 43.127(a), Local Government Code, to make
conforming changes. 

SECTION 3.  Effective date. 

   Act retroactive.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2003