Bill Text: TX HB207 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 207 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to voting by the qualified voters of a water or sewer district wholly or partly annexed by a municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Elections [HB207 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB207-Introduced.html

	85S10285 PAM-D

	By: Huberty	H.B. No. 207



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to voting by the qualified voters of a water or sewer
	district wholly or partly annexed by a municipality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
	is amended by adding Section 43.0711 to read as follows:
	Sec. 43.0711. RIGHT OF VOTER OF WATER OR SEWER DISTRICT TO
	VOTE IN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (a) In this section, "water
	or sewer district":
	(1) means:
	(A) a district or authority created under Article
	III, Section 52, Subsections (b)(1) and (2), or under Article XVI,
	Section 59, of the Texas Constitution that provides or proposes to
	provide, as its principal function, water services or sewer
	services or both to household users; or
	(B) a municipal utility district operating under
	Chapter 54, Water Code; and
	(2) does not include a district or authority the
	primary function of which is the wholesale distribution of water.
	(b) A qualified voter of a water or sewer district, any
	portion of which a municipality has annexed for full or limited
	purposes, is entitled to vote in municipal elections regarding the
	election or recall of members of the governing body of the
	municipality, the election or recall of the controller, if the
	office of controller is an elective position of the municipality,
	and the amendment of the municipal charter, regardless of whether
	the municipality has annexed the entire district or whether the
	voter resides in an annexed portion of the district. To the extent
	of a conflict between this section and another provision of this
	code or the Water Code, this section controls. This section does
	not apply to:
	(1) an area in the water or sewer district that is
	outside of the annexing municipality's extraterritorial
	jurisdiction; or
	(2) an area in the water or sewer district that is in
	the overlapping extraterritorial jurisdiction of two or more
	municipalities.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
	municipal election ordered on or after the effective date of this
	Act. A municipal election ordered before the effective date of this
	Act is governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. 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 December 1, 2017.