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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate certain |
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subdivision planning. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 232.100, Local Government Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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Sec. 232.100. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only |
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to the subdivision of the land that is: |
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(1) subject to county regulations under Subchapter A |
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or B; and |
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(2) in a county that: |
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(A) has a population of 150,000 or more and is: |
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(i) adjacent to an international border; or |
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(ii) the location of the main campus of a |
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general academic teaching institution, as defined by Section |
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61.003, Education Code; |
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(B) has a population of 700,000 or more; |
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(C) is adjacent to a county with a population of |
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700,000 or more and is within the same metropolitan statistical |
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area as that adjacent county, as designated by the United States |
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Office of Management and Budget; or |
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(D) is adjacent to a county with a population of |
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700,000 or more, is not within the same metropolitan statistical |
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area as that adjacent county, and has a population that has |
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increased after the 1990 decennial census, from one decennial |
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census to the next, by more than 40 percent. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2007. |