BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 3383

By: Bell, Keith

Land & Resource Management

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Reports indicate that larger counties in Texas are growing at an accelerating rate, causing surrounding smaller communities to seek relief from current annexation practices. It has been noted that many of these communities include multiple MUD districts whose residents have purposefully chosen to live outside the larger city limits. C.S.H.B. 3383 seeks to address this issue by providing annexation protections for these smaller communities.

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

C.S.H.B. 3383 amends the Local Government Code to exclude from classification as a tier 1 county for purposes of municipal annexation a county with a population of less than 125,000:

· that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than 2.2 million;

· that contains any portion of the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality with a population of more than 1.1 million; and

· in which more than one municipal utility district registered with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as being active is located.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2019.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 3383 differs from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways by conforming to certain bill drafting conventions.