By: Watson, et al. S.B. No. 1479
(Dale)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of emergency services in the
Williamson-Travis Counties Water Control and Improvement District
No. 1F.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle I, Title 6, Special District Local Laws
Code, is amended by adding Chapter 9042 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 9042. WILLIAMSON-TRAVIS COUNTIES WATER CONTROL AND
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1F
Sec. 9042.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "district"
means the Williamson-Travis Counties Water Control and Improvement
District No. 1F.
Sec. 9042.002. REMOVAL OF AREA FROM EMERGENCY SERVICES
DISTRICT. (a) This section applies only to:
(1) a municipality with a population of less than
100,000; and
(2) an emergency services district operating under
Chapter 775, Health and Safety Code, in which the district is wholly
or partly located.
(b) If the district enters into a strategic partnership
agreement with a municipality under Section 43.0751, Local
Government Code, that includes the provision of fire-fighting
services as defined by Section 49.351(k), Water Code, and the
district has completed all other procedures necessary for a
limited-purpose annexation by that municipality, an emergency
services district shall disannex the territory of the district to
be served by the municipality under the agreement in accordance
with Subsection (c).
(c) The territory remains part of the emergency services
district until the secretary of the emergency services district
board receives from the district notice that the requirements of
Subsection (b) have been met. On receipt of the notice, the board
shall immediately change its records to show that the district
territory has been disannexed from the emergency services district
and shall cease to provide further services to the residents of that
territory.
(d) Sections 775.022(b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), Health and
Safety Code, apply to a disannexation under this section, as if the
disannexation occurred under the provisions of Section 775.022(a),
Health and Safety Code.
SECTION 2. (a) The legal notice of the intention to
introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this
Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a
copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies,
officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished
under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313,
Government Code.
(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has
submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed
its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the
lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
representatives within the required time.
(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this
state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect
to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled
and accomplished.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.