Bill Text: TX HB3383 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of a tier 1 county for purposes of municipal annexation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB3383 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3383-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bell of Kaufman, et al. | H.B. No. 3383 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Nichols) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019; | ||
April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the definition of a tier 1 county for purposes of | ||
municipal annexation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.001(2), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Tier 1 county" means a county: | ||
(A) with a population of less than 500,000; and | ||
(B) that is not: | ||
(i) a county that contains a freshwater | ||
fisheries center operated by the [ |
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Department; or | ||
(ii) a county with a population of less than | ||
125,000: | ||
(a) that is adjacent to a county with | ||
a population of more than 2.2 million; | ||
(b) that contains any portion of the | ||
extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality with a population | ||
of more than 1.1 million; and | ||
(c) in which more than one municipal | ||
utility district registered with the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality as being active is located. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
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