Bill Text: TX HB1813 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to confiscate packaged fireworks; providing an affirmative defense for possessing fireworks in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1813 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1813-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to confiscate packaged fireworks; providing an affirmative defense for possessing fireworks in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1813 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1813-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 1813 | |
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| relating to the authority of a municipality to confiscate packaged | ||
| fireworks. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 342.003, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Subsection (a)(8) does not authorize a municipality to | ||
| confiscate packaged, unopened fireworks. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 342, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 342.013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 342.013. CONFISCATION OF PACKAGED FIREWORKS | ||
| PROHIBITED. A home-rule municipality that regulates fireworks may | ||
| not confiscate packaged, unopened fireworks. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
