Bill Text: TX HB1979 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to strategic partnerships for the continuation of certain water districts annexed by a municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-11 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1979 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1979-Comm_Sub.html

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82R9106 MXM-F
By: Laubenberg, Burkett H.B. No. 1979

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to strategic partnerships for the continuation of certain
water districts annexed by a municipality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.0751(a)(1), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(1) "District" means a conservation and reclamation
[water control and improvement district or a municipal utility]
district [created or] operating under Chapter 49 [51 or 54], Water
Code. The term does not include a groundwater conservation district
operating under Chapter 36, Water Code, or a special utility
district operating under Chapter 65, Water Code.
SECTION 2. Section 43.0751, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (r) to read as follows:
(r) A district or the area of a district annexed for limited
purposes under this section must be:
(1) in the municipality's extraterritorial
jurisdiction; and
(2) contiguous to the corporate boundaries of the
municipality or an area annexed by the municipality for limited
purposes, unless the district consents to noncontiguous annexation
under a strategic partnership agreement with the municipality.
SECTION 3. Section 43.0751, Local Government Code, as
amended by this Act, applies only to an annexation for limited
purposes of an area for which a municipality institutes proceedings
to annex the area on or after the effective date of this Act. The
annexation of an area for limited purposes for which a municipality
institutes annexation proceedings before that date is governed by
the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.