Bill Text: TX HB1922 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to periodic reauthorization of municipal building permit fees.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-24 - Effective on 1/1/24 [HB1922 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1922-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1922 | ||
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| relating to periodic reauthorization of municipal building permit | ||
| fees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 214, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 214.908 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 214.908. REAUTHORIZATION OF BUILDING PERMIT FEES. (a) | ||
| In this section, "building permit fee" means a fee charged by a | ||
| municipality as a condition to constructing, renovating, or | ||
| remodeling a structure. | ||
| (b) A building permit fee is abolished on the 10th | ||
| anniversary after the date the fee is adopted or most recently | ||
| reauthorized under this section unless the governing body of the | ||
| municipality that adopted or reauthorized the fee: | ||
| (1) holds a public hearing on the reauthorization of | ||
| the fee; and | ||
| (2) reauthorizes the fee by vote of the governing | ||
| body. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2024. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1922 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1922 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 10, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
