Bill Text: TX HB2012 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to regulation by certain counties of roadside or parking lot vendors and solicitors.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB2012 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2012-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2012

AN ACT
relating to regulation by certain counties of roadside or parking
lot vendors and solicitors.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 285.001(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) To promote the public safety, the commissioners court of
a county with a population of more than 1.3 million and a county
with a population of more than 600,000 that is adjacent to a county
with a population of more than four million by order may regulate
the following in the unincorporated area of the county if they occur
on a public highway or road, in the right-of-way of a public highway
or road, or in a parking lot:
(1) the sale of items by a vendor of food or
merchandise, including live animals;
(2) the erection, maintenance, or placement of a
structure by a vendor of food or merchandise, including live
animals; and
(3) the solicitation of money.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2012 was passed by the House on May
14, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 104, Nays 35, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2012 was passed by the Senate on May
28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor