Bill Text: TX SB1694 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to annexation by and disannexation from certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-25 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [SB1694 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1694-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1694 | |
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| relating to annexation by and disannexation from certain | ||
| municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 43.0547 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 43.0547. COMPACTNESS REQUIREMENT FOR ANNEXATION IN | ||
| CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a | ||
| municipality in a county that contains an international border and | ||
| borders the Gulf of Mexico may not annex an area unless: | ||
| (1) the area is compact; and | ||
| (2) the addition of the area to the municipality | ||
| serves the goal of creating a single compact municipal area. | ||
| (b) For purposes of this section, the area to be annexed is | ||
| compact if it is concentrated in a single area. The addition of an | ||
| area to a municipality serves the goal of creating a single compact | ||
| municipal area if the action does not create enclaves, pockets, or | ||
| finger areas. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 43.058 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 43.058. PROHIBITION AGAINST ANNEXATION TO SURROUND | ||
| MUNICIPALITY IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. A municipality in a county that | ||
| contains an international border and borders the Gulf of Mexico may | ||
| not annex an area if the annexation or the resulting expansion of | ||
| the annexing municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction will | ||
| cause another municipality to be entirely surrounded by the | ||
| annexing municipality or the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the | ||
| annexing municipality. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter Z, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 43.908 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 43.908. REQUIRED ANNEXATION BY AND DISANNEXATION FROM | ||
| CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A municipality in a county that | ||
| contains an international border and borders the Gulf of Mexico | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) not later than December 1, 2013, include in the | ||
| municipality's annexation plan each unincorporated area that is | ||
| entirely surrounded by the incorporated territory of the | ||
| municipality; and | ||
| (2) not later than December 1, 2016, annex each area | ||
| described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| (b) Not later than January 1, 2014, a municipality described | ||
| by Subsection (a) shall disannex each area that was annexed by the | ||
| municipality on or after January 1, 2002, unless: | ||
| (1) the area is compact; and | ||
| (2) the addition of the area to the municipality | ||
| serves the goal of creating a single compact municipal area. | ||
| (c) For purposes of this section, the area to be annexed is | ||
| compact if it is concentrated in a single area. The addition of an | ||
| area to a municipality serves the goal of creating a single compact | ||
| municipal area if the action does not create enclaves, pockets, or | ||
| finger areas. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2013. | ||
