Bill Text: TX HB11 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 4th Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the reduction of a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-11-07 - Filed [HB11 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB11-Introduced.html
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| By: Tepper | H.B. No. 11 | |
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| relating to the reduction of a municipality's extraterritorial | ||
| jurisdiction. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.023, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.023. REDUCTION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. | ||
| The extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality may not be | ||
| reduced unless the governing body of the municipality gives its | ||
| written consent by ordinance or resolution, except: | ||
| (1) in cases of judicial apportionment of overlapping | ||
| extraterritorial jurisdictions under Section 42.901; | ||
| (2) in accordance with an agreement under Section | ||
| 42.022(d); or | ||
| (3) as necessary to comply with Section 42.0235, | ||
| 42.105, or 42.155. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
