Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, 
H.B. No. 1772 (Miller/Fraser)











By:  Fraser                                   S.R. No. 1090



SENATE RESOLUTION
	BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 79th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, That Senate Rule 12.03 be 
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the 
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on 
House Bill 1772 (permitting a general-law municipality to annex 
land in certain circumstances) to consider and take action on the 
following matter:
	Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the committee 
to add a new Subdivision (7) to Subsection (a), Section 43.033, 
Local Government Code, that requires a general-law municipality 
to offer a development agreement to a landowner before annexing 
land that is appraised for ad valorem tax purposes as 
agricultural or wildlife management use, to read as follows:
		(7)  if the area is appraised for ad valorem tax 
purposes as land for agricultural or wildlife management use 
under Subchapter C or D, Chapter 23, Tax Code:
			(A)  the municipality offers to make a 
development agreement with the landowner in the manner provided 
by Section 212.172 that would:
				(i)  guarantee the continuation of the 
extraterritorial status of the area; and
				(ii)  authorize the enforcement of all 
regulations and planning authority of the municipality that do 
not interfere with the agricultural or wildlife management use of 
the area; and
			(B)  the landowner fails to accept an offer 
described by Paragraph (A) within 30 days after the date the 
offer is made.
	Explanation:  This change is necessary to protect owners 
of property that is appraised as agricultural or wildlife 
management use for property tax purposes from annexation by a 
municipality in a manner that would interfere with the use of the 
land for agricultural or wildlife management purposes.




_______________________________ 
    President of the Senate
 
     I hereby certify that the 
above Resolution was adopted by 
the Senate on May 29, 2005, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.



_______________________________ 
    Secretary of the Senate