Amend HB 610 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered sections to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent sections of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ___.  Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government 
Code, is amended by adding Section 43.035 to read as follows:
	Sec. 43.035.  ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN CONTIGUOUS AREAS BY 
GENERAL LAW MUNICIPALITY.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this chapter, a general law municipality may annex an 
unincorporated area located within three contiguous miles of the 
municipality's corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction 
if the municipality receives a petition for annexation from at 
least 75 percent of the qualified voters of the area to be annexed.  
If any part of a subdivision is within the three mile limit, all of 
the subdivision may be annexed under this section.
	(b)  In order to file a petition under this section, part of 
the area to be annexed must be:
		(1)  within the boundaries of a school district with a 
high school located within the general law municipality's corporate 
limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction; and
		(2)  within three linear miles of the general law 
municipality's main police station.
	(c)  If the general law municipality grants the petition, the 
municipality shall have the sole authority and power to annex the 
affected area.
	(d)  On the effective date of the ordinance annexing the 
territory, the area becomes a part of the general law municipality 
and the inhabitants of the area are entitled to the rights and 
privileges of other residents of the municipality and are bound by 
the acts and ordinances adopted by the municipality.
	(e)  The fact that the affected area is within the 
extraterritorial jurisdiction or annexation plan of a home rule 
municipality does not affect the power of the general law 
municipality to annex the area under this section if that home rule 
municipality does not elect the home rule municipality's governing 
body from single member districts.  If a general municipality 
annexes an area under this section and the area is within a home 
rule municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction or annexation 
plan, the home rule municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction 
and annexation plan area are decreased by that amount.  An area 
annexed under this section is exempt from the requirements of this 
chapter from being in a general law municipality's annexation plan.
	(f)  In a petition filed under this section, the petitioners 
may propose a service plan, and the general law municipality may 
adopt the proposed service plan in the annexation ordinance without 
undergoing the procedures required by this chapter for the adoption 
of a service plan.
	SECTION ____.  Section 43.052, Local Government Code, is 
amended by adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:
	(k)  Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by Subsections 
(e) and (g), under an agreement described by Section 43.0563 a 
municipality may annex an area for full or limited purposes at any 
time on petition of the owner of the area for the annexation if the 
area:
		(1)  is in the municipality's annexation plan; or                      
		(2)  was previously in the municipality's annexation 
plan but removed under Subsection (e).
	SECTION ____.  Section 43.0563, Local Government Code, is 
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to 
read as follows:
	(a)  The governing body of a municipality with a population 
of less than 1.6 million may negotiate and enter into a written 
agreement [with representatives designated under Section 
43.0562(b)] for the provision of services and the funding of the 
services in an [the] area with:
		(1)  representatives designated under Section 
43.0562(b), if the area is included in the municipality's 
annexation plan; or
		(2)  an owner of an area within the extraterritorial 
jurisdiction of the municipality if the area is not included in the 
municipality's annexation plan.
	(a-1)  An [The] agreement under this section may also include 
an agreement related to permissible land uses and compliance with 
municipal ordinances.
	SECTION ____.  Section 43.0564(a), Local Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  If the municipality and the representatives of the area 
proposed for annexation cannot reach an agreement for the provision 
of services under Section 43.0562 or if the municipality and the 
property owner representatives described by Section 43.0563(a)(1)
cannot reach an agreement for the provision of services in lieu of 
annexation under Section 43.0563, either party by majority decision 
of the party's representatives may request the appointment of an 
arbitrator to resolve the service plan issues in dispute.  The 
request must be made in writing to the other party before the 60th 
day after the date the service plan is completed under Section 
43.056.  The municipality may not annex the area under another 
section of this chapter during the pendency of the arbitration 
proceeding or an appeal from the arbitrator's decision.