Amend HB 2512 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ___.  Section 42.023, Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 42.023.  REDUCTION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. The extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality may not be reduced unless the governing body of the municipality gives its written consent by ordinance or resolution, except:

(1)  in cases of judicial apportionment of overlapping extraterritorial jurisdictions under Section 42.901;

(2)  in accordance with an agreement under Section 42.022(d); [or]

(3)  as necessary to comply with Section 42.0235; or

(4)  as necessary to comply with Subchapter D or E.

SECTION ___.  Section 42.152, Local Government Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

(a)  A resident of an area in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction may request the municipality to hold an election in accordance with this subchapter to vote on the question of whether to release the area from the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction by filing with the municipality a petition that includes the signatures of at least five percent of the registered voters residing in the area as of the date of the preceding uniform election date. A resident may only file for release of an area if the resident resides in the area subject to the release.

SECTION ___.  Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Section 42.157 to read as follows: