Bill Text: TX HB4295 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to annex area qualified for agricultural or wildlife management use or as timberland.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB4295 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4295-Introduced.html

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88R13454 MZM-F
By: Gates H.B. No. 4295

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a municipality to annex area qualified
for agricultural or wildlife management use or as timberland.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.016(b), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) A municipality may not annex an area to which this
section applies without the written consent of each owner of the
area being annexed [unless:
[(1) the municipality offers to make a development
agreement with the landowner under Section 212.172 that would:
[(A) guarantee the continuation of the
extraterritorial status of the area; and
[(B) authorize the enforcement of all
regulations and planning authority of the municipality that do not
interfere with the use of the area for agriculture, wildlife
management, or timber; and
[(2) the landowner declines to make the agreement
described by Subdivision (1)].
SECTION 2. Sections 43.016(c), (d), and (e), Local
Government Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.