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.