83R5578 JTS-F
	By: Rodriguez of Travis	H.B. No. 2171

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the annexation by a municipality of territory of an
	emergency services district.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 775.022(a) and (c), Health and Safety
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  If a municipality completes all other procedures
	necessary to annex territory in a district and if the municipality
	intends to remove the territory from the district and be the sole
	provider of [provide] emergency services to the territory by the
	use of municipal personnel or by some method other than by use of
	the district, the municipality shall send written notice of those
	facts [that fact] to the board. The municipality must send the
	notice to the secretary of the board by certified mail, return
	receipt requested. The territory remains part of the district and
	does not become part of the municipality until the secretary of the
	board receives the notice. On receipt of the notice, the board
	shall immediately change its records to show that the territory has
	been disannexed from the district and shall cease to provide
	further services to the residents of that territory.  This
	subsection does not require a municipality to remove from a
	district territory the municipality has annexed.
	(c)  If a municipality removes [annexes] territory from [in]
	a district that the municipality has annexed, the municipality
	shall compensate the district immediately after disannexation of
	the territory under Subsection (a) in an amount equal to the annexed
	territory's pro rata share of the district's bonded and other
	indebtedness as computed according to the formula in Subsection
	(e). The district shall apply compensation received from a
	municipality under this subsection exclusively to the payment of
	the annexed territory's pro rata share of the district's bonded and
	other indebtedness.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.