| 4 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 7 | | relating to the service plan for the annexation by certain |
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| 6 | 8 | | municipalities of territory included in an emergency services |
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| 7 | 9 | | district. |
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| 8 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 43.056(p), Local Government Code, is |
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| 10 | 12 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 13 | | (p) This subsection applies only to a municipality in a |
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| 12 | 14 | | county with a population of more than one million and less than 1.75 |
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| 13 | 15 | | [1.5] million. For a municipality that has adopted Chapter 143 and |
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| 14 | 16 | | directly employs firefighters, a service plan that includes the |
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| 15 | 17 | | provision of services to an area that, at the time the service plan |
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| 16 | 18 | | is adopted, is located in the territory of an emergency services |
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| 17 | 19 | | district: |
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| 18 | 20 | | (1) must require the municipality's fire department to |
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| 19 | 21 | | provide initial response to the annexed territory that is |
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| 20 | 22 | | equivalent to that provided to other areas within the corporate |
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| 21 | 23 | | boundaries of the municipality with similar topography, land use, |
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| 22 | 24 | | and population density; |
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| 23 | 25 | | (2) may not provide for municipal fire services to the |
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| 24 | 26 | | annexed area solely or primarily by means of an automatic aid or |
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| 25 | 27 | | mutual aid agreement with the affected emergency services district |
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| 26 | 28 | | or other third-party provider of services; and |
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| 27 | 29 | | (3) may authorize the emergency services district to |
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| 28 | 30 | | provide supplemental fire and emergency medical services to the |
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| 29 | 31 | | annexed area by means of an automatic aid or mutual aid agreement. |
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| 30 | 32 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section |
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| 31 | 33 | | 43.056(p), Local Government Code, applies only to the annexation of |
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| 32 | 34 | | an area for which all parts of the statutory annexation process are |
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| 33 | 35 | | begun on or after the effective date of this Act. The annexation of |
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| 34 | 36 | | an area for which any part of the statutory annexation process was |
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| 35 | 37 | | begun before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law |
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| 36 | 38 | | in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the |
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| 37 | 39 | | former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 38 | 40 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 39 | | - | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 40 | | - | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 41 | | - | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1878 passed the Senate on |
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| 42 | | - | April 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 43 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 44 | | - | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 45 | | - | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1878 passed the House on |
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| 46 | | - | May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, two |
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| 47 | | - | present not voting. |
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| 48 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 49 | | - | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 50 | | - | Approved: |
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| 51 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 52 | | - | Date |
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| 53 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 54 | | - | Governor |
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