By: Hegar, Watson S.B. No. 1257
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2011; March 16, 2011, read
first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
April 20, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; April 20, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the annexation by certain conservation and reclamation
districts of noncontiguous land in another county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 49.3021 to read as follows:
Sec. 49.3021. COUNTY CONSENT FOR CERTAIN ANNEXATIONS.
Before a district may annex land that is noncontiguous to the
district and located wholly or partly in a county other than the
county or counties in which the district is located before the
annexation, the county commissioners of the county in which the
land to be annexed is located must consent by order or resolution to
the proposed annexation.
SECTION 2. Section 49.3021, Water Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to a petition requesting the annexation of land
received by a district board under Section 49.301 or 49.302, Water
Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. A petition
requesting the annexation of land received by a district board
under Section 49.301 or 49.302, Water Code, before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
petition is received, and that law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
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, 2011.
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