Bill Text: TX HB4257 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to retaliation for municipal annexation disapproval.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB4257 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4257-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4257 | ||
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| relating to retaliation for municipal annexation disapproval. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 43.0688, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) The disapproval of the proposed annexation of an area | ||
| under this subchapter does not affect any existing legal obligation | ||
| of the municipality proposing the annexation to continue to provide | ||
| governmental services in the area, including water or wastewater | ||
| services, regardless of whether the municipality holds a | ||
| certificate of convenience and necessity to serve the area. | ||
| (c) A municipality that makes a wholesale sale of water to a | ||
| special district operating under Chapter 36 or Title 4, Water Code, | ||
| may not charge rates for the water that are higher than rates | ||
| charged in other similarly situated areas solely because the | ||
| district is wholly or partly located in an area that disapproved of | ||
| a proposed annexation under this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 43.0699, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) The disapproval of the proposed annexation of an area | ||
| under this subchapter does not affect any existing legal obligation | ||
| of the municipality proposing the annexation to continue to provide | ||
| governmental services in the area, including water or wastewater | ||
| services, regardless of whether the municipality holds a | ||
| certificate of convenience and necessity to serve the area. | ||
| (c) A municipality that makes a wholesale sale of water to a | ||
| special district operating under Chapter 36 or Title 4, Water Code, | ||
| may not charge rates for the water that are higher than rates | ||
| charged in other similarly situated areas solely because the | ||
| district is wholly or partly located in an area that disapproved of | ||
| a proposed annexation under this subchapter. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4257 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4257 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
