Bill Text: TX HB1643 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of the operation of an unmanned aircraft and the prosecution of a related criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1643 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1643-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of the operation of an unmanned aircraft and the prosecution of a related criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1643 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1643-Introduced.html
85R7300 JCG-D | ||
By: Springer | H.B. No. 1643 |
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relating to the prosecution of the offense of operation of an | ||
unmanned aircraft over certain facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 423.0045(a)(1), Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Critical infrastructure facility" means: | ||
(A) one of the following, if completely enclosed | ||
by a fence or other physical barrier that is obviously designed to | ||
exclude intruders, or if clearly marked with a sign or signs that | ||
are posted on the property, are reasonably likely to come to the | ||
attention of intruders, and indicate that entry is forbidden: | ||
(i) a petroleum or alumina refinery; | ||
(ii) an electrical power generating | ||
facility, substation, switching station, or electrical control | ||
center; | ||
(iii) a chemical, polymer, or rubber | ||
manufacturing facility; | ||
(iv) a water intake structure, water | ||
treatment facility, wastewater treatment plant, or pump station; | ||
(v) a natural gas compressor station; | ||
(vi) a liquid natural gas terminal or | ||
storage facility; | ||
(vii) a telecommunications central | ||
switching office; | ||
(viii) a port, railroad switching yard, | ||
trucking terminal, or other freight transportation facility; | ||
(ix) a gas processing plant, including a | ||
plant used in the processing, treatment, or fractionation of | ||
natural gas; | ||
(x) a transmission facility used by a | ||
federally licensed radio or television station; | ||
(xi) a steelmaking facility that uses an | ||
electric arc furnace to make steel; [ |
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(xii) a dam that is classified as a high | ||
hazard by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; or | ||
(xiii) a concentrated animal feeding | ||
operation, as defined by Section 26.048, Water Code; or | ||
(B) any portion of an aboveground oil, gas, or | ||
chemical pipeline that is enclosed by a fence or other physical | ||
barrier that is obviously designed to exclude intruders. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |