Bill Text: TX HB377 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to consent requirements for municipal annexation of an area on request of the landowners.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-28 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB377 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB377-Introduced.html

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89R1486 SCL-D
By: Cortez H.B. No. 377

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to consent requirements for municipal annexation of an
area on request of the landowners.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.0672, Local Government Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(a) Notwithstanding Section 212.172 or any contractual
provision to the contrary and not earlier than the 90th day before
the date of the annexation, the [The] governing body of the
municipality that elects to annex an area under this subchapter
must first negotiate and enter into a written agreement with the
owners of land in the area for the provision of services in the
area.
(d) An agreement that authorizes a municipality to annex the
land that is the subject of the agreement may not waive the
requirements described by this section.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an annexation of an area that was not final on the effective date of
this Act. An annexation that was final before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law applicable to the annexation
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.