Relating to authority of a home-rule municipality to adopt a charter, charter amendment, ordinance, or other measure affecting the municipality's governmental immunity.

SB 2299 requires Texas home-rule municipalities to obtain prior legislative approval from the state legislature before adopting any charter amendment, ordinance, or measure that changes the municipality's governmental immunity (protection from lawsuits). This directly affects cities with home-rule charters, such as Austin or Houston, by preventing them from unilaterally altering their legal liability through local action. The bill mandates that the legislature must pass a resolution approving such changes before a municipality can hold a voter referendum on them. It also explicitly prohibits charter amendments that would change governmental immunity without this state-level approval. The bill is currently pending in the Local Government committee.