Bill Text: TX SB1468 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to annexation by certain municipalities of a special district under a strategic partnership agreement.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB1468 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1468-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1468 | ||
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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: | ||
| (1) operates a municipally owned water utility; and | ||
| (2) is a party to a strategic partnership agreement: | ||
| (A) with a municipal utility district; and | ||
| (B) under which the municipality contemplates | ||
| annexing 400 or more water or wastewater connections that are not | ||
| located in the district. | ||
| (b) A municipality authorized or required to annex a | ||
| district for full purposes under a strategic partnership agreement | ||
| under Section 43.0751: | ||
| (1) may not annex the district without also annexing | ||
| all of the unincorporated area served by the district that is | ||
| located in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction; and | ||
| (2) must receive approval for the annexations under | ||
| the agreement and Subdivision (1) as required by Subchapter C-3, | ||
| C-4, or C-5, as applicable, before annexation. | ||
| 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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 1468 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 2, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays 6; and that the | ||
| Senate concurred in House amendment on May 21, 2019, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1468 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 134, | ||
| Nays 7, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
