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. |