Bill Text: TX HB3383 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of a tier 1 county for purposes of municipal annexation.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB3383 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3383-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Bell of Kaufman, et al. | H.B. No. 3383 | |
| (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) | ||
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019; | ||
| April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
| Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by | ||
| the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the definition of a tier 1 county for purposes of | ||
| municipal annexation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 43.001(2), Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (2) "Tier 1 county" means a county: | ||
| (A) with a population of less than 500,000; and | ||
| (B) that is not: | ||
| (i) a county that contains a freshwater | ||
| fisheries center operated by the [ |
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| Department; or | ||
| (ii) a county with a population of less than | ||
| 125,000: | ||
| (a) that is adjacent to a county with | ||
| a population of more than 2.2 million; | ||
| (b) that contains any portion of the | ||
| extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality with a population | ||
| of more than 1.1 million; and | ||
| (c) in which more than one municipal | ||
| utility district registered with the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality as being active is located. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
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