Bill Text: TX HB2529 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 2529 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to regulation of the sale of fireworks by certain municipalities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2529 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2529-Comm_Sub.html

	84R15002 SCL-D

	By: Lucio III, Schaefer, Isaac	H.B. No. 2529

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2529:

	By: Bernal	C.S.H.B. No. 2529



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to regulation of the sale of fireworks by certain
	municipalities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 217.042, Local Government Code, is
	amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to
	read as follows:
	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the [~~The~~]
	municipality may define and prohibit any nuisance within the limits
	of the municipality and within 5,000 feet outside the limits.
	(c) The municipality may not define and prohibit as a
	nuisance the sale of a firework or similar material outside the
	limits of the municipality from a structure at which fireworks or
	similar materials have been regularly sold during authorized
	periods since before September 1, 2010.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.