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1	1	83R18878 AED-F
2	2	By: Dale, Workman H.B. No. 2833
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2833:
4	4	By: Kolkhorst C.S.H.B. No. 2833
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6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the provision of emergency services in the
10	10	Williamson-Travis Counties Water Control and Improvement District
11	11	No. 1F.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Subtitle I, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
14	14	Code, is amended by adding Chapter 9042 to read as follows:
15	15	CHAPTER 9042. WILLIAMSON-TRAVIS COUNTIES WATER CONTROL AND
16	16	IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1F
17	17	Sec. 9042.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "district"
18	18	means the Williamson-Travis Counties Water Control and Improvement
19	19	District No. 1F.
20	20	Sec. 9042.002. REMOVAL OF AREA FROM EMERGENCY SERVICES
21	21	DISTRICT. (a) This section applies only to:
22	22	(1) a municipality with a population of less than
23	23	100,000; and
24	24	(2) an emergency services district operating under
25	25	Chapter 775, Health and Safety Code, in which the district is wholly
26	26	or partly located.
27	27	(b) If the district enters into a strategic partnership
28	28	agreement with a municipality under Section 43.0751, Local
29	29	Government Code, that includes the provision of fire-fighting
30	30	services as defined by Section 49.351(k), Water Code, and the
31	31	district has completed all other procedures necessary for a
32	32	limited-purpose annexation by that municipality, an emergency
33	33	services district shall disannex the territory of the district to
34	34	be served by the municipality under the agreement in accordance
35	35	with Subsection (c).
36	36	(c) The territory remains part of the emergency services
37	37	district until the secretary of the emergency services district
38	38	board receives from the district notice that the requirements of
39	39	Subsection (b) have been met. On receipt of the notice, the board
40	40	shall immediately change its records to show that the district
41	41	territory has been disannexed from the emergency services district
42	42	and shall cease to provide further services to the residents of that
43	43	territory.
44	44	(d) Sections 775.022(b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), Health and
45	45	Safety Code, apply to a disannexation under this section, as if the
46	46	disannexation occurred under the provisions of Section 775.022(a),
47	47	Health and Safety Code.
48	48	SECTION 2. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
49	49	introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
50	50	Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
51	51	copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
52	52	officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
53	53	under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
54	54	Government Code.
55	55	(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
56	56	submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
57	57	Environmental Quality.
58	58	(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
59	59	its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
60	60	lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
61	61	representatives within the required time.
62	62	(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
63	63	state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
64	64	to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
65	65	and accomplished.
66	66	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.