Bill Text: TX HB3821 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to voting by the qualified voters of a water or sewer district wholly or partly annexed by a municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Elections [HB3821 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3821-Introduced.html
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| By: Huberty | H.B. No. 3821 | |
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| relating to voting by the qualified voters of a water or sewer | ||
| district wholly or partly annexed by a municipality. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 43.071, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) A qualified voter of a water or sewer district, any | ||
| portion of which a municipality has annexed for full or limited | ||
| purposes, is entitled to vote in municipal elections regarding the | ||
| election or recall of members of the governing body of the | ||
| municipality, the election or recall of the controller, if the | ||
| office of controller is an elective position of the municipality, | ||
| and the amendment of the municipal charter, regardless of whether | ||
| the municipality has annexed the entire district or whether the | ||
| voter resides in an annexed portion of the district. To the extent | ||
| of a conflict between this subsection and another provision of this | ||
| code or the Water Code, this subsection controls. This subsection | ||
| does not apply to: | ||
| (1) an area in the water or sewer district that is | ||
| outside of the annexing municipality's extraterritorial | ||
| jurisdiction; or | ||
| (2) an area in the water or sewer district that is in | ||
| the overlapping extraterritorial jurisdiction of two or more | ||
| municipalities. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| municipal election ordered on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. A municipal election ordered before the effective date of this | ||
| Act is governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2017. | ||
