83R18878 AED-F
 
  By: Dale, Workman H.B. No. 3950
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the provision of emergency services in the
  Williamson-Travis Counties Water Control and Improvement District
  No. 1F.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle I, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
  Code, is amended by adding Chapter 9042 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 9042. WILLIAMSON-TRAVIS COUNTIES WATER CONTROL AND
  IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1F
         Sec. 9042.001.  DEFINITION. In this chapter, "district"
  means the Williamson-Travis Counties Water Control and Improvement
  District No. 1F.
         Sec. 9042.002.  REMOVAL OF AREA FROM EMERGENCY SERVICES
  DISTRICT.  (a) This section applies only to:
               (1)  a municipality with a population of less than
  100,000; and
               (2)  an emergency services district operating under
  Chapter 775, Health and Safety Code, in which the district is wholly
  or partly located.
         (b)  If the district enters into a strategic partnership
  agreement with a municipality under Section 43.0751, Local
  Government Code, that includes the provision of fire-fighting
  services as defined by Section 49.351(k), Water Code, and the
  district has completed all other procedures necessary for a
  limited-purpose annexation by that municipality, an emergency
  services district shall disannex the territory of the district to
  be served by the municipality under the agreement in accordance
  with Subsection (c).
         (c)  The territory remains part of the emergency services
  district until the secretary of the emergency services district
  board receives from the district notice that the requirements of
  Subsection (b) have been met. On receipt of the notice, the board
  shall immediately change its records to show that the district
  territory has been disannexed from the emergency services district
  and shall cease to provide further services to the residents of that
  territory.
         (d)  Sections 775.022(b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), Health and
  Safety Code, apply to a disannexation under this section, as if the
  disannexation occurred under the provisions of Section 775.022(a),
  Health and Safety Code.
         SECTION 2.  (a) The legal notice of the intention to
  introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
  Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
  copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
  officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
  under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
  Government Code.
         (b)  The governor, one of the required recipients, has
  submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
  Environmental Quality.
         (c)  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
  its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
  lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
  representatives within the required time.
         (d)  All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
  state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
  to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
  and accomplished.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.