| |
|
| |
|
|
By: Buckingham |
S.B. No. 1499 |
|
|
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2021; March 24, 2021, read |
|
|
first time and referred to Committee on Local Government; |
|
|
April 21, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
|
|
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 4; April 21, 2021, |
|
|
sent to printer.) |
| Click here to see the committee vote |
| |
|
|
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1499 |
By: Hall |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
| |
|
|
relating to the municipal disannexation of certain areas formerly |
|
|
designated as a census designated place. |
|
|
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 43.149 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 43.149. DISANNEXATION OF CERTAIN ANNEXED AREAS |
|
|
FORMERLY DESIGNATED AS CENSUS DESIGNATED PLACE. (a) This section |
|
|
applies only to an annexed area that: |
|
|
(1) contains: |
|
|
(A) an access point to a greenbelt; and |
|
|
(B) at least 1,200 single-family homes; |
|
|
(2) is separated from two municipalities other than |
|
|
the municipality in which the area is located only by a highway; and |
|
|
(3) before annexation: |
|
|
(A) was part of a single census designated place; |
|
|
and |
|
|
(B) was served by a municipal utility district |
|
|
that owned a water treatment and storage facility. |
|
|
(b) A municipality shall disannex an area described by |
|
|
Subsection (a), including residential and commercial property in |
|
|
the area. |
|
|
(c) If a water treatment and storage facility described by |
|
|
Subsection (a)(3) was transferred to the municipality during |
|
|
annexation, the municipality shall retain ownership of the facility |
|
|
after disannexation under this section. |
|
|
(d) After an area is disannexed under this section: |
|
|
(1) a special district located in and serving the area |
|
|
may be dissolved only if the members of the governing body of the |
|
|
district elect to dissolve the district after the disannexation; |
|
|
and |
|
|
(2) an emergency services district that is adjacent to |
|
|
the area shall provide services to the area. |
|
|
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, 2021. |
|
|
|
|
|
* * * * * |