Bill Text: TX HB4257 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to retaliation for municipal annexation disapproval.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB4257 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4257-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4257 |
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relating to retaliation for municipal annexation disapproval. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.0688, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The disapproval of the proposed annexation of an area | ||
under this subchapter does not affect any existing legal obligation | ||
of the municipality proposing the annexation to continue to provide | ||
governmental services in the area, including water or wastewater | ||
services, regardless of whether the municipality holds a | ||
certificate of convenience and necessity to serve the area. | ||
(c) A municipality that makes a wholesale sale of water to a | ||
special district operating under Chapter 36 or Title 4, Water Code, | ||
may not charge rates for the water that are higher than rates | ||
charged in other similarly situated areas solely because the | ||
district is wholly or partly located in an area that disapproved of | ||
a proposed annexation under this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 43.0699, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The disapproval of the proposed annexation of an area | ||
under this subchapter does not affect any existing legal obligation | ||
of the municipality proposing the annexation to continue to provide | ||
governmental services in the area, including water or wastewater | ||
services, regardless of whether the municipality holds a | ||
certificate of convenience and necessity to serve the area. | ||
(c) A municipality that makes a wholesale sale of water to a | ||
special district operating under Chapter 36 or Title 4, Water Code, | ||
may not charge rates for the water that are higher than rates | ||
charged in other similarly situated areas solely because the | ||
district is wholly or partly located in an area that disapproved of | ||
a proposed annexation under this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4257 was passed by the House on April | ||
26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4257 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |