Amend HB 3167 on third reading by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 212.014, Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 212.014.  REPLATTING WITHOUT VACATING PRECEDING PLAT. A replat of a subdivision or part of a subdivision may be recorded and is controlling over the preceding plat without vacation of that plat if the replat:

(1)  is signed and acknowledged by only the owners of the property being replatted;

(2)  is approved[, after a public hearing on the matter at which parties in interest and citizens have an opportunity to be heard,] by the municipal authority responsible for approving plats; and

(3)  does not attempt to amend or remove any covenants or restrictions.

SECTION ____.  Section 212.015, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Subsections (a-1), (f), and (g) and amending Subsection (b) to read as follows:

(b)  Notice of the hearing required under Subsection (a-1) [Section 212.014] shall be given before the 15th day before the date of the hearing by:

(1)  publication in an official newspaper or a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the municipality is located; and

(2)  by written notice, with a copy of Subsection (c) attached, forwarded by the municipal authority responsible for approving plats to the owners of lots that are in the original subdivision and that are within 200 feet of the lots to be replatted, as indicated on the most recently approved municipal tax roll or in the case of a subdivision within the extraterritorial jurisdiction, the most recently approved county tax roll of the property upon which the replat is requested. The written notice may be delivered by depositing the notice, properly addressed with postage prepaid, in a post office or postal depository within the boundaries of the municipality.