By: Lucio S.B. No. 468
(In the Senate - Filed January 12, 2017; February 6, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 19, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain
municipalities in coastal border counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.0235, Local Government Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(a) Notwithstanding Section 42.021, and except as provided
by Subsection (d), the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a
municipality with a population of more than 175,000 located in a
county that contains an international border and borders the Gulf
of Mexico terminates two miles from the extraterritorial
jurisdiction of a neighboring municipality if extension of the
extraterritorial jurisdiction beyond that limit would:
(1) completely surround the corporate boundaries or
extraterritorial jurisdiction of the neighboring municipality; and
(2) limit the growth of the neighboring municipality
by precluding the expansion of the neighboring municipality's
extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(d) Extraterritorial jurisdiction for a municipality
subject to this section is determined under Section 42.021 if the
governing body of the municipality and the governing body of the
neighboring municipality have each adopted a resolution stating
that the determination of extraterritorial jurisdiction under
Section 42.0235(a) is not in the best interest of the municipality.
SECTION 2. 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, 2017.
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