Bill Text: TX HB206 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a limitation on a county's authority to require a cash bond before approving the construction of a pipeline.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB206 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB206-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 206 | ||
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| relating to a limitation on a county's authority to require a cash | ||
| bond before approving the construction of a pipeline. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 240, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 240.911 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 240.911. BOND FOR PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION. A county may | ||
| not require a cash bond as a condition of approval for the | ||
| construction of a pipeline in the county's boundaries. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 240.911, Local Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies only to an application for approval to | ||
| construct a pipeline filed with a county on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 206 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 114, Nays 34, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 206 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 12, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
