Bill Text: TX HB2573 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of certain municipal ordinances in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-06 - Left pending in committee [HB2573 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2573-Introduced.html
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By: Kuempel | H.B. No. 2573 |
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relating to the applicability of certain municipal ordinances in | ||
the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 212.003, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality may not | ||
extend into its extraterritorial jurisdiction a municipal | ||
ordinance that imposes cut and fill depth requirements or other | ||
water quality regulations on a project that are more stringent than | ||
the applicable minimum state and federal water quality requirements | ||
unless the project is located in an area that is an aquifer recharge | ||
or contributing zone. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |