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Committee advances annexation bill banning emergency clauses and one-night three-readings
Summary
House Bill 1250 would bar cities from using emergency clauses to read and pass annexation-election ordinances three times in one night, after sponsors said a Rogers annexation left property owners unaware and unable to address council before an election; the committee passed the bill by voice vote.
Representative Douglas introduced House Bill 1250 as a property-rights measure to prevent cities from attaching emergency clauses to annexation-election ordinances and from reading an annexation ordinance three times in a single meeting to rush an election onto the books.
Douglas said the bill was prompted by a Northwest Arkansas example in which the City of Rogers set an annexation election, read the ordinance three times in one night and passed it, leaving affected…
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