86R5404 SCL-D
 
  By: Campbell S.B. No. 1327
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to municipal disannexation involving certain real estate
  subdivisions.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
  is amended by adding Section 43.1435 to read as follows:
         Sec. 43.1435.  DISANNEXATION BY PETITION:  CERTAIN REAL
  ESTATE SUBDIVISIONS. (a) This section applies only to an area that
  constitutes a portion of a real estate subdivision that is:
               (1)  located in and contiguous to the boundary of a
  municipality;
               (2)  under the jurisdiction of a property owners'
  association that governs the entire real estate subdivision; and
               (3)  either:
                     (A)  subject to a legal determination that the
  municipality failed to provide or agree to provide adequate
  services to the area; or
                     (B)  adjacent to another area in the subdivision
  that is subject to a legal determination described by Paragraph
  (A).
         (b)  A majority of the registered voters of an area subject
  to this section may petition the municipality to disannex the area.
  The petition must be filed with the secretary or clerk of the
  municipality.
         (c)  Not later than the 10th day after the date the secretary
  or clerk receives the petition under Subsection (b), the secretary
  or clerk shall determine whether the petition is valid.  If the
  petition is determined valid, the governing body of the
  municipality shall immediately enter in the minutes or records of
  the municipality an order discontinuing the area as part of the
  municipality. The area ceases to be a part of the municipality on
  the date of the entry of the order.
         (d)  A disannexation under this section does not authorize
  the impairment of a municipal debt obligation and, to the extent
  applicable, the area is not released from its pro rata share of that
  indebtedness. The governing body shall continue to levy a property
  tax each year on the property in the area at the same rate that is
  levied on other property in the municipality until the taxes
  collected from the area equal its pro rata share of the
  indebtedness. Those taxes may be charged only with the cost of
  levying and collecting the taxes, and the taxes shall be applied
  exclusively to the payment of the pro rata share of the
  indebtedness. This subsection does not prevent the inhabitants of
  the area from paying in full at any time their pro rata share of the
  indebtedness.
         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.