Bill Text: TX SB871 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 871 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to municipal voting rights and eligibility for municipal office of residents in areas subject to limited-purpose annexation under strategic partnership agreements.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [SB871 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB871-Introduced.html

	85R9178 PAM-D

	By: Bettencourt	S.B. No. 871



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to municipal voting rights and eligibility for municipal
	office of residents in areas subject to limited-purpose annexation
	under strategic partnership agreements.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 43.0751, Local Government Code, is
	amended by amending Subsection (q) and adding Subsection (q-1) to
	read as follows:
	(q) The qualified voters of a district annexed for limited
	purposes under a strategic partnership agreement are entitled to
	vote in municipal elections as provided by Section 43.130(a) in the
	same manner as qualified voters of any other area annexed for
	limited purposes, and that subsection applies to a limited-purpose
	annexation under a strategic partnership agreement. Residents of a
	district annexed for limited purposes under a strategic partnership
	agreement are not eligible to be a candidate for or to be elected to
	a municipal office as provided by Section 43.130(b).
	(q-1) Except as provided by Subsection (q) [~~for Sections~~
	~~43.130(a) and (b)~~], Subchapter F does not apply to a
	limited-purpose annexation under a strategic partnership
	agreement.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act is intended
	only to clarify existing law with respect to the municipal voting
	rights and eligibility for office of residents in areas subject to
	limited-purpose annexation under strategic partnership agreements.
	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, 2017.