Farmersville City Attorney Alan Lathrom, offering a comprehensive rundown of legislation that affects city governments, declared that the Texas Legislature acted in a “peculiar” matter by seeking to shore up its power in Austin.
Lathrom, who delivered a lengthy summary of the 2023 Legislature’s impact on cities at Tuesday night’s city council meeting, noted that the Legislature has been battling the federal government over the issue of local government control. And yet, Lathrom said, it enacted House Bill 2127, which he said seeks to undermine home rule cities’ authority on certain government issues.
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