HBA-TYH H.B. 679 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 679 By: Williams Land and Resource Management 4/5/1999 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The 1963 Municipal Annexation Act established a five-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) around the city limits of large cities. Some cities have extended their ETJs through strip annexations to include communities 15 to 20 miles outside the city limits. Currently, there is proposed legislation to remove communities from such extended ETJs. H.B. 679 protects communities that are removed from certain extended ETJs from being transferred into the ETJ of a neighboring city. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Local Government Code, by adding Section 42.026, as follows: Sec. 42.026. APPROVAL NECESSARY FOR TRANSFER OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION LOCATED IN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT. Provides that the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) of a municipality does not include an area that another municipality has released from its ETJ and that is located in a municipal utility district, without the approval of the governing body of the municipal utility district. Prohibits the ETJ of a municipality from extending to the aforementioned area. SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 3. Emergency clause.