Bill Text: TX SB509 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 509 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the validation of a home-rule charter for certain municipalities.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-28 - Effective immediately [SB509 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB509-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 509




	AN ACT
	relating to the validation of a home-rule charter for certain
	municipalities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. (a) The home-rule charter of a general-law
	municipality that by an election adopted a home-rule charter after
	June 1, 2009, and before December 31, 2009, is validated as of the
	date of the election.
	(b) This section does not apply to:
	(1) the adoption of a home-rule charter or the
	attempted adoption of a home-rule charter that, under a statute of
	this state, was a misdemeanor or felony at the time the act or
	proceeding occurred;
	(2) the adoption of a home-rule charter by a
	municipality that was incorporated or attempted to incorporate
	within the incorporated boundaries or extraterritorial
	jurisdiction of another municipality that occurred without the
	consent of the other municipality in violation of Chapter 42 or 43,
	Local Government Code;
	(3) an action that was premised on an ordinance that,
	at the time it was passed, was preempted by a statute of this state
	or the United States, including Section 1.06 or 109.57, Alcoholic
	Beverage Code; or
	(4) a matter that on the effective date of this
	section:
	(A) is involved in litigation if the litigation
	ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final
	judgment of a court; or
	(B) has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
	court.
	SECTION 2. 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, 2011.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 509 passed the Senate on
	March 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 509 passed the House on
	May 13, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, one
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor