By: Lucio S.B. No. 1908
(In the Senate - Filed April 15, 2011; April 18, 2011, read
first time and referred to Committee on International Relations and
Trade; May 2, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 2, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a general-law municipality to annex
territory receiving water and sewer services from a municipal
utility district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.033, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Subsection (a)(3) does not apply to a municipality that
annexes an area that receives water and sewer service from a
municipal utility district that provides water and sewer service to
all or part of the municipality.
SECTION 2. Section 43.033, Local Government Code, as
amended by this Act, applies only to an annexation of an area for
which a municipality institutes proceedings to annex the area on or
after the effective date of this Act. The annexation of an area for
which a municipality institutes annexation proceedings before that
date is governed by the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and the former 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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