By: Kuempel, Stickland H.B. No. 3750
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the applicability of certain municipal ordinances in
  the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 212.003, Local Government Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality may not
  enforce in its extraterritorial jurisdiction a municipal
  ordinance, regulation, or other measure that imposes cut and fill
  depth requirements or other water quality regulations on a project
  that are more stringent than the applicable minimum state and
  federal water quality requirements unless the project is located in
  an area that is an aquifer recharge or contributing zone, or in the
  drainage basin of a river designated by the Texas Commission on
  Environmental Quality as having high or
  exceptional aquatic life
  use in the Texas Surface Water Quality Standards.
         SECTION 2.  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 September 1, 2019.