Home-Rule Cities in Texas Are Sometimes Confronted with State Statutes

Home-rule cities in Texas are sometimes confronted with state statutes enacted to restrict their self-governing power and special authority.It is unconstitutional,however,for the legislature to pass a law that targets one specific local governmental entity.The legislature gets around this restriction with regard to limiting specific home-rule cities by

A) passing laws that apply to cities in a given population bracket.
B) calling on the governor to use his plenary power to order the city to cease and desist the activity in question.
C) enacting a amendment to the Texas Constitution (which supersedes statutory law) limiting the activity in question.
D) petitioning the Texas delegation to Congress to enact federal legislation limiting the activity in question..
E) requesting a writ of mandamus from the Texas Supreme Court ordering the home-rule city in question to cease the activity the legislation deems inappropriate.