Bill Text: TX HB2254 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of trampoline courts as amusement rides.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-11 - Left pending in committee [HB2254 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2254-Introduced.html
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| By: Turner | H.B. No. 2254 | |
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| relating to the regulation of trampoline courts as amusement rides. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2151.002, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subdivision (1) and adding Subdivisions (7) and (8) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (1) "Amusement ride" means a mechanical device that | ||
| carries passengers along, around, or over a fixed or restricted | ||
| course or within a defined area for the purpose of giving the | ||
| passengers amusement, pleasure, or excitement or a trampoline | ||
| court. The term does not include: | ||
| (A) a coin-operated ride that: | ||
| (i) is manually, mechanically, or | ||
| electrically operated; | ||
| (ii) is customarily placed in a public | ||
| location; and | ||
| (iii) does not normally require the | ||
| supervision or services of an operator; | ||
| (B) nonmechanized playground equipment, | ||
| including a swing, a seesaw, a stationary spring-mounted animal | ||
| feature, a rider-propelled merry-go-round, a climber, a playground | ||
| slide, a trampoline that is not part of a trampoline court, or a | ||
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| (C) a challenge course or any part of a challenge | ||
| course if the person who operates the challenge course has an | ||
| insurance policy currently in effect written by an insurance | ||
| company authorized to do business in this state or by a surplus | ||
| lines insurer, as defined by Chapter 981, Insurance Code, or has an | ||
| independently procured policy subject to Chapter 101, Insurance | ||
| Code, insuring the operator against liability for injury to persons | ||
| arising out of the use of the challenge course, in an amount not | ||
| less than: | ||
| (i) for facilities with a fixed location: | ||
| (a) $100,000 bodily injury and | ||
| $50,000 property damage per occurrence, with a $300,000 annual | ||
| aggregate; or | ||
| (b) a $150,000 per occurrence | ||
| combined single limit, with a $300,000 annual aggregate; and | ||
| (ii) for facilities other than those with a | ||
| fixed location: | ||
| (a) $1,000,000 bodily injury and | ||
| $500,000 property damage per occurrence; or | ||
| (b) $1,500,000 per occurrence | ||
| combined single limit. | ||
| (7) "Trampoline court" means a commercial facility | ||
| with a defined area containing one or more trampolines or a series | ||
| of trampolines or a trampoline court foam pit or a series of | ||
| trampoline court foam pits. The term does not include a gymnastic | ||
| training facility that only uses trampolines or trampoline court | ||
| foam pits during the supervised instruction of gymnastic skills. | ||
| (8) "Trampoline court foam pit" means a trampoline | ||
| dismount area filled with loose, impact-absorbing foam blocks. | ||
| SECTION 2. The commissioner of insurance shall adopt rules | ||
| necessary to implement the changes in law made by this Act not later | ||
| than December 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the changes in law made by this | ||
| Act, a person operating a trampoline court that was in operation | ||
| before December 1, 2023, is not required to satisfy the | ||
| requirements for operation under Section 2151.101, Occupations | ||
| Code, before March 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this | ||
| section, this Act takes effect December 1, 2023. | ||
| (b) Sections 2 and 3 of this Act take effect September 1, | ||
| 2023. | ||
