Bill Text: TX SB1257 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 1257 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the annexation by certain conservation and reclamation districts of noncontiguous land in another county.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-29 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [SB1257 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1257-Engrossed.html



	By: Hegar, Watson	S.B. No. 1257


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the annexation by certain conservation and reclamation
	districts of noncontiguous land in another county.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended
	by adding Section 49.3021 to read as follows:
	Sec. 49.3021. COUNTY CONSENT FOR CERTAIN ANNEXATIONS.
	Before a district may annex land that is noncontiguous to the
	district and located wholly or partly in a county other than the
	county or counties in which the district is located before the
	annexation, the county commissioners of the county in which the
	land to be annexed is located must consent by order or resolution to
	the proposed annexation.
	SECTION 2. Section 49.3021, Water Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to a petition requesting the annexation of land
	received by a district board under Section 49.301 or 49.302, Water
	Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. A petition
	requesting the annexation of land received by a district board
	under Section 49.301 or 49.302, Water Code, before the effective
	date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
	petition is received, and that 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, 2011.