Bill Text: TX HB2239 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 2239

Bill Title: Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB2239 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2239-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Troxclair, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Flores)	H.B. No. 2239
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2023;
	May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local
	Government; May 22, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 3;
	May 22, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2239	By: Springer


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper
	tree.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 212.905(h), Local Government Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(h) A municipality may not prohibit the removal of or impose
	a tree mitigation fee for the removal of [~~a tree that~~]:
	(1) a tree that is diseased or dead; [or]
	(2) a tree that poses an imminent or immediate threat
	to persons or property; or
	(3) an Ashe juniper tree that is:
	(A) located on a residential property that is not
	more than five acres with an existing one-family or two-family
	dwelling; and
	(B) removed by a resident of the dwelling or a
	person authorized by the resident.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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