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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the service plan for the annexation by certain |
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municipalities of territory included in an emergency services |
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district. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 43.056(p), Local Government Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(p) This subsection applies only to a municipality in a |
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county with a population of more than one million and less than 1.75 |
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[1.5] million. For a municipality that has adopted Chapter 143 and |
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directly employs firefighters, a service plan that includes the |
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provision of services to an area that, at the time the service plan |
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is adopted, is located in the territory of an emergency services |
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district: |
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(1) must require the municipality's fire department to |
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provide initial response to the annexed territory that is |
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equivalent to that provided to other areas within the corporate |
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boundaries of the municipality with similar topography, land use, |
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and population density; |
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(2) may not provide for municipal fire services to the |
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annexed area solely or primarily by means of an automatic aid or |
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mutual aid agreement with the affected emergency services district |
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or other third-party provider of services; and |
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(3) may authorize the emergency services district to |
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provide supplemental fire and emergency medical services to the |
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annexed area by means of an automatic aid or mutual aid agreement. |
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section |
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43.056(p), Local Government Code, applies only to the annexation of |
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an area for which all parts of the statutory annexation process are |
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begun on or after the effective date of this Act. The annexation of |
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an area for which any part of the statutory annexation process was |
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begun before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law |
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in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the |
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former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |