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TX HB950
Bill
Status
11/12/2024
Primary Sponsor
Richard Hayes
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AI Summary
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Requires municipalities to provide full municipal services to annexed land, including police protection, fire protection with hydrants, emergency medical services, solid waste collection, water and wastewater facilities, roads and streets with lighting, and other municipal facilities
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Sets deadlines for service provision: land annexed before September 1, 2025 must receive full services by September 1, 2029; land annexed after that date must receive services within 4 years of annexation
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Prohibits municipalities from charging fees to landowners for the cost of providing full municipal services, requiring landowners to fund services or improvements, or requiring landowners to waive rights under this section
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Allows affected landowners to sue for disannexation if the municipality fails to provide required services, with the municipality bearing the burden of proving compliance by clear and convincing evidence
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Creates an irrebuttable presumption of noncompliance if the service deadline passes without full services being provided, requiring courts to order disannexation of the affected land
Legislative Description
Relating to the provision of municipal services to land annexed by a municipality for full purposes.
City Government
Last Action
Reported favorably as substituted
4/28/2025