Bill Text: TX HB1979 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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| By: Laubenberg | H.B. No. 1979 | |
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| 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 | ||
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| 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. | ||
