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Amend HB 1665 (senate committee printing) in SECTION 2 of the bill as follows:
(1) In the recital (page 1, lines 16-17), strike "Section 397.005(b), Local Government Code, is amended" and substitute "Section 397.005, Local Government Code, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (d) and (e)".
(2) Following amended Section 397.005(b), Local Government Code (page 1, between lines 28 and 29), insert the following:
(d) This subsection applies to an ordinance, rule, or plan regulating the planting, clearing, or harvesting of trees or vegetation or other uses of trees or vegetation on a particular tract of land located in the corporate boundaries or in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality that is a defense community and within three miles of the boundary line of a defense base. Defense base authorities may submit comments and analysis to a defense community that is a municipality regarding the compatibility of the proposed ordinance, rule, or plan or the proposed enforcement of the ordinance, rule, or plan in the corporate boundaries or applicable extraterritorial jurisdiction. The defense community shall consider and analyze comments and analysis submitted under this subsection before making a final determination relating to the proposed ordinance, rule, or plan or proposed enforcement of the ordinance, rule, or plan. The defense community may enforce the ordinance, rule, or plan only if any comments and analysis received from defense base authorities support the enforcement of the ordinance, rule, or plan in the corporate boundaries or applicable extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(e) Notwithstanding any other law, an ordinance, rule, or plan regulating the planting, clearing, or harvesting of trees or vegetation or other uses of trees or vegetation on a particular tract of land may not be enforced in any portion of the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality that is not located within three miles of the boundary line of a defense base.