Bill Text: TX HB1292 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to access to mobile showers by homeless individuals in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB1292 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1292-Introduced.html
| 88R6432 SCL-D | ||
| By: Campos | H.B. No. 1292 | |
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| relating to access to mobile showers by homeless individuals in | ||
| certain municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 11, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 350 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 350. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO MUNICIPAL HEALTH | ||
| AND PUBLIC SAFETY | ||
| Sec. 350.001. ACCESS TO MOBILE SHOWERS BY HOMELESS IN | ||
| CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A municipality with a population of | ||
| 500,000 or more shall provide to homeless individuals residing in | ||
| the municipality access to mobile showers. The municipality must | ||
| make available a sufficient number of showers to allow daily shower | ||
| access by each homeless individual residing in the municipality. | ||
| The municipality shall ensure that the access is sufficient to | ||
| address the hygienic needs of and the prevention of hygiene-related | ||
| illnesses in the municipality's homeless population. | ||
| (b) A municipality subject to Subsection (a) shall use all | ||
| available federal money, including money provided under the | ||
| American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2), that is | ||
| available for implementing that subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
