Bill Text: TX HB3821 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to annexation by certain municipalities of a special district under a strategic partnership agreement.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3821 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3821-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to annexation by certain municipalities of a special district under a strategic partnership agreement.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3821 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3821-Introduced.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 3821 | |
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| relating to annexation by certain municipalities of a special | ||
| district under a strategic partnership agreement. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 43.0751(s), Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (s) Notwithstanding any other law other than Section | ||
| 43.083, the procedures prescribed by Subchapters C-3, C-4, and C-5 | ||
| do not apply to the annexation of an area under this section. | ||
| Except as provided by Subsection (h), a municipality shall follow | ||
| the procedures established under the strategic partnership | ||
| agreement for full-purpose annexation of an area under this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 43.083 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 43.083. ANNEXATION BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES THAT | ||
| OPERATE MUNICIPALLY OWNED WATER UTILITY. (a) This section applies | ||
| only to a municipality that operates a municipally owned water | ||
| utility and uses revenue from the utility partly for general | ||
| municipal purposes or other purposes not related to the water | ||
| utility. | ||
| (b) A municipality annexing a district for full purposes | ||
| under a strategic partnership agreement under Section 43.0751 must: | ||
| (1) comply with Subchapter C-3, C-4, or C-5, as | ||
| applicable; and | ||
| (2) annex the district and all of the unincorporated | ||
| area served by the district that is located in the municipality's | ||
| extraterritorial jurisdiction. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2019. | ||
