Bill Text: TX HB2913 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to allow a person to file an application to stop a nonconforming use of a property.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-19 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB2913 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2913-Introduced.html

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89R8561 DRS-D
By: Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 2913

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a municipality to allow a person to
file an application to stop a nonconforming use of a property.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 211.019, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (q) to read as follows:
(q) This section does not prohibit a municipality from
adopting or enforcing an ordinance, regulation, or other measure
that allows a person who resides or owns real property in the
municipality to file an application to stop a nonconforming use of a
property.
SECTION 2. Section 211.019(q), Local Government Code, as
added by this Act, applies to an ordinance, regulation, or other
measure adopted by a municipality on, before, or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.