Bill Text: TX HB1486 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to dedicatory instruments prohibiting or restricting the display of Thin Blue Line flags by a property owners' association.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-02 - Filed [HB1486 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1486-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Louderback H.B. No. 1486
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to dedicatory instruments prohibiting or restricting the
  display of Thin Blue Line flags by a property owners' association.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  SECTION 1. Sec. 202.001, Property Code, is
  amended by adding Subdivision (6) to read as follows:
         (6)  "Thin Blue Line flag" means a flag that is similar to the
  flag of the United States of America in style and design consisting
  of both:
               (A)  a black rectangle in the upper hoist corner
  bearing fifty white five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset
  horizontal rows; and
               (B)  thirteen horizontal stripes of equal height, the
  top and bottom stripe being black, with alternating white and black
  stripes in between, except that the eighth horizontal stripe from
  the top of the flag or emblem which appears directly below the field
  of stars is a blue stripe.
         SECTION 2.  Section 202.012(a), Property Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 202.012.  FLAG DISPLAY. (a)  A property owners'
  association may not, except as provided in this section, adopt or
  enforce a dedicatory instrument provision that prohibits,
  restricts, or has the effect of prohibiting or restricting an owner
  from the display of:
         (1)  the flag of the United States of America;
         (2)  the flag of the State of Texas; [or]
         (3)  an official or replica flag of any branch of the United
  States armed forces[.]; or
         (4)  a Thin Blue Line flag described by Sec. 202.001(6).
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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