BILL ANALYSIS

S.B. 1878

By: Menéndez

Land & Resource Management

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties contend that it is important that certain areas annexed by a municipality receive the same level of emergency fire response as is provided in the corporate boundaries of the municipality. S.B. 1878 seeks to address this issue by changing the population bracket triggering the applicability of provisions relating to the provision of certain fire services to an annexed area.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

S.B. 1878 amends the Local Government Code, for purposes of the applicability of statutory provisions imposing certain additional conditions on the service plan of a municipality that has adopted the firefighters' and police officers' civil service law, directly employs firefighters, and is proposing the annexation of an area located in the territory of an emergency services district, to change the population range of the county the municipality must be in from a population of more than one million and less than 1.5 million to a population of more than one million and less than 1.75 million.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2017.