Bill Text: TX HB3080 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to annex area qualified for agricultural or wildlife management use or as timberland.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-14 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB3080 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3080-Introduced.html
  88R13454 MZM-F
 
  By: Hayes H.B. No. 3080
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a municipality to annex area qualified
  for agricultural or wildlife management use or as timberland.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 43.016(b), Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A municipality may not annex an area to which this
  section applies without the written consent of each owner of the
  area being annexed [unless:
               [(1)  the municipality offers to make a development
  agreement with the landowner under Section 212.172 that would:
                     [(A)  guarantee the continuation of the
  extraterritorial status of the area; and
                     [(B)  authorize the enforcement of all
  regulations and planning authority of the municipality that do not
  interfere with the use of the area for agriculture, wildlife
  management, or timber; and
               [(2)  the landowner declines to make the agreement
  described by Subdivision (1)].
         SECTION 2.  Sections 43.016(c), (d), and (e), Local
  Government Code, are repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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