Bill Text: TX HB3763 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3763 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to consent for the inclusion of a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction in an emergency services district.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-11 - Left pending in committee [HB3763 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3763-Introduced.html

	83R10541 KKR-F

	By: Coleman	H.B. No. 3763



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to consent for the inclusion of a municipality's
	extraterritorial jurisdiction in an emergency services district.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 775.014(b), Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(b) If the municipality's governing body does not consent to
	inclusion within the 60-day period prescribed by Subsection (a),
	five percent [~~a majority~~] of the qualified voters and the owners of
	at least five [50] percent of the territory in the municipality's
	limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction that would have been
	included in the district may petition the governing body to make
	fire control and emergency medical and ambulance services
	available. The petition must be submitted to the governing body not
	later than the 90th day after the date on which the municipality
	receives the request under Subsection (a).
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.