85S10285 PAM-D
 
  By: Huberty H.B. No. 207
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to voting by the qualified voters of a water or sewer
  district wholly or partly annexed by a municipality.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
  is amended by adding Section 43.0711 to read as follows:
         Sec. 43.0711.  RIGHT OF VOTER OF WATER OR SEWER DISTRICT TO
  VOTE IN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (a) In this section, "water
  or sewer district":
               (1)  means:
                     (A)  a district or authority created under Article
  III, Section 52, Subsections (b)(1) and (2), or under Article XVI,
  Section 59, of the Texas Constitution that provides or proposes to
  provide, as its principal function, water services or sewer
  services or both to household users; or
                     (B)  a municipal utility district operating under
  Chapter 54, Water Code; and
               (2)  does not include a district or authority the
  primary function of which is the wholesale distribution of water.
         (b)  A qualified voter of a water or sewer district, any
  portion of which a municipality has annexed for full or limited
  purposes, is entitled to vote in municipal elections regarding the
  election or recall of members of the governing body of the
  municipality, the election or recall of the controller, if the
  office of controller is an elective position of the municipality,
  and the amendment of the municipal charter, regardless of whether
  the municipality has annexed the entire district or whether the
  voter resides in an annexed portion of the district. To the extent
  of a conflict between this section and another provision of this
  code or the Water Code, this section controls. This section does
  not apply to:
               (1)  an area in the water or sewer district that is
  outside of the annexing municipality's extraterritorial
  jurisdiction; or
               (2)  an area in the water or sewer district that is in
  the overlapping extraterritorial jurisdiction of two or more
  municipalities.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a
  municipal election ordered on or after the effective date of this
  Act. A municipal election ordered before the effective date of this
  Act is governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect December 1, 2017.