Bill Text: TX HB3203 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the division of certain emergency services districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3203 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3203-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3203 | ||
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| relating to the division of certain emergency services districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 775.221, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 775.221. AUTHORITY TO DIVIDE DISTRICT. (a) This | ||
| subchapter applies only to a district located wholly in: | ||
| (1) a county with a population of 20,000 or less; or | ||
| (2) a county with a population of more than 30,000 but | ||
| less than 41,000 that is adjacent to a county with a population of | ||
| more than 200,000 but less than 220,000. | ||
| (b) The board of a district described by Subsection (a) | ||
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| may create a new district by disannexing territory from the | ||
| existing district and ordering a new district to be created in the | ||
| disannexed territory in the manner provided by this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 775.223(c), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
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| shall approve the petition not later than the 10th day after the | ||
| date of the hearing if the board finds that: | ||
| (1) the petition contains the number of signatures | ||
| required under Section 775.222(a); and | ||
| (2) the proposed division is feasible. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 775.223(c), Health and Safety Code, applies only to the division of | ||
| an emergency services district the petition for which is submitted | ||
| on or after the effective date of this Act. The division of an | ||
| emergency services district the petition for which is submitted | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
| effect on the date the petition is submitted, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3203 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3203 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
