Bill Text: TX HB1417 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the sale of fireworks during and before the Diwali holiday.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1417 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1417-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of fireworks during and before the Diwali holiday.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1417 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1417-Introduced.html
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By: Rinaldi | H.B. No. 1417 |
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relating to the sale of fireworks during and before the Diwali | ||
holiday. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2154.202(g), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(g) Except as provided by Subsection (h), a retail fireworks | ||
permit holder may sell fireworks only to the public, and only during | ||
periods: | ||
(1) beginning June 24 and ending at midnight on July 4; | ||
(2) beginning December 20 and ending at midnight on | ||
January 1 of the following year; [ |
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(3) beginning May 1 and ending at midnight on May 5 if | ||
the fireworks are sold at a location that is not more than 100 miles | ||
from the Texas-Mexico border and that is in a county in which the | ||
commissioners court of the county has approved the sale of | ||
fireworks during the period; and | ||
(4) beginning five days before the first day of Diwali | ||
and ending at midnight on the last day of Diwali. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 352.051(b)(1), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) The Texas A&M Forest Service in the ordinary | ||
course of its activities shall determine whether drought | ||
conditions, as defined under Subsection (a)(2), exist on average in | ||
any county requesting such a determination. The Texas A&M Forest | ||
Service shall make available the measurement index guidelines used | ||
to determine whether drought conditions exist in a particular area. | ||
Following any determination that such drought conditions exist, the | ||
Texas A&M Forest Service shall notify said county or counties when | ||
such drought conditions no longer exist. The Texas A&M Forest | ||
Service shall make its services available each day during the Texas | ||
Independence Day, San Jacinto Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, | ||
Diwali, and December fireworks seasons to respond to the request of | ||
any county for a determination whether drought conditions exist on | ||
average in the county. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 352.051(d), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) To facilitate compliance with an order adopted under | ||
Subsection (c), the order must be adopted before: | ||
(1) February 15 of each year for the Texas | ||
Independence Day fireworks season; | ||
(2) April 1 of each year for the San Jacinto Day | ||
fireworks season; | ||
(3) April 25 of each year for the Cinco de Mayo | ||
fireworks season; | ||
(4) May 15 of each year for the Memorial Day fireworks | ||
season; | ||
(5) June 15 of each year for the Fourth of July | ||
fireworks season; [ |
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(6) 15 days before the beginning of Diwali for the | ||
Diwali fireworks season; and | ||
(7) December 15 of each year for each December | ||
fireworks season. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |