S.B. No. 1878
AN ACT
relating to the service plan for the annexation by certain
municipalities of territory included in an emergency services
district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.056(p), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(p) This subsection applies only to a municipality in a
county with a population of more than one million and less than 1.75
[1.5] million. For a municipality that has adopted Chapter 143 and
directly employs firefighters, a service plan that includes the
provision of services to an area that, at the time the service plan
is adopted, is located in the territory of an emergency services
district:
(1) must require the municipality's fire department to
provide initial response to the annexed territory that is
equivalent to that provided to other areas within the corporate
boundaries of the municipality with similar topography, land use,
and population density;
(2) may not provide for municipal fire services to the
annexed area solely or primarily by means of an automatic aid or
mutual aid agreement with the affected emergency services district
or other third-party provider of services; and
(3) may authorize the emergency services district to
provide supplemental fire and emergency medical services to the
annexed area by means of an automatic aid or mutual aid agreement.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
43.056(p), Local Government Code, applies only to the annexation of
an area for which all parts of the statutory annexation process are
begun on or after the effective date of this Act. The annexation of
an area for which any part of the statutory annexation process was
begun before the effective date of this Act 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 September 1, 2017.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1878 passed the Senate on
April 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1878 passed the House on
May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, two
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor