Bill Text: TX HB2956 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to municipal annexation of an area adjacent to contiguous or connecting railroad rights-of-way.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB2956 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2956-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to municipal annexation of an area adjacent to contiguous or connecting railroad rights-of-way.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-18 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB2956 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2956-Comm_Sub.html
By: Shine (Senate Sponsor - Flores) | H.B. No. 2956 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2023; | ||
May 9, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local | ||
Government; May 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to municipal annexation of an area adjacent to contiguous | ||
or connecting railroad rights-of-way. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 43.1057 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 43.1057. ANNEXATION OF AREA ADJACENT TO CONTIGUOUS OR | ||
CONNECTING RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY. (a) Notwithstanding any other | ||
law, a municipality that is annexing an area under Subchapter C-3, | ||
C-4, C-5, or D may also annex with the initial area an additional | ||
area if: | ||
(1) the area is adjacent to a right-of-way of a railway | ||
line, spur, or other railroad property that is: | ||
(A) contiguous and runs parallel to the | ||
municipality's boundaries; and | ||
(B) contiguous to the area being annexed under | ||
Subchapter C-3, C-4, C-5, or D; and | ||
(2) each owner of the area agrees to the annexation by | ||
the municipality. | ||
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a) or other law with a | ||
municipal boundary contiguous requirement, including a municipal | ||
charter or ordinance, an area adjacent or contiguous to the initial | ||
area being annexed under Subsection (a) is considered adjacent and | ||
contiguous to the annexing municipality. | ||
(c) Section 43.054 does not apply to the annexation under | ||
this section of the additional area described by Subsection (a). | ||
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, 2023. | ||
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