Bill Text: TX HB2672 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 2672 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to safety measures for culverts or other similar flood or drainage systems maintained by governmental entities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2672 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2672-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Dutton	H.B. No. 2672

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2672:

	By: Mallory Caraway	C.S.H.B. No. 2672



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to safety measures for culverts or other similar flood or
	drainage systems maintained by governmental entities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Logan's Law.
	SECTION 2. Chapter 756, Health and Safety Code, is amended
	by adding Subchapter I to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER I. CULVERTS OR OTHER DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
	Sec. 756.151. DUTY OF MUNICIPALITY. (a) This section
	applies only to an intake to a culvert or other enclosed flood or
	drainage system that is:
	(1) maintained by a municipality with a population of
	more than two million; and
	(2) located within 100 feet of an elementary school.
	(b) A municipality shall ensure that:
	(1) each intake described by Subsection (a) is
	protected by a bar, grate, or other appropriate covering sufficient
	to ensure that a child may not be swept into the system; and
	(2) a sign warning of the hazard for a child, including
	the danger for injury or drowning, is clearly posted at the intake.
	(c) A municipality shall ensure that each culvert or other
	enclosed flood or drainage system with an intake that is subject to
	the requirements of this section has a hinged opening or other type
	of opening and closing mechanism to permit emergency services
	personnel to access the system.
	SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2011, a municipality
	with a population of more than two million shall ensure that each
	culvert or other enclosed flood or drainage system and each intake
	to the system meets the requirements of Section 756.151, Health and
	Safety Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 4. 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, 2011.