Bill Text: TX HB3266 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to construction standards for certain recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3266 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3266-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3266 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3266: | |||
| By: Larson | C.S.H.B. No. 3266 | ||
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| relating to construction standards for certain recreational | ||
| vehicle parks and campgrounds. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 9, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 769 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 769. RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKS AND CAMPGROUNDS | ||
| CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS | ||
| Sec. 769.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Governmental entity" means the state, an agency | ||
| of the state, or a political subdivision of the state. | ||
| (2) "NFPA" means the National Fire Protection | ||
| Association. | ||
| Sec. 769.002. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies to a | ||
| campground or recreational vehicle park consisting of a privately | ||
| owned parcel or tract of land under the control of a person, | ||
| organization, or other entity, other than a governmental entity, on | ||
| which sites for recreational vehicles, recreational park trailers, | ||
| or other camping units are offered primarily for transient guest | ||
| use by the public or members of an organization for overnight stays. | ||
| Sec. 769.003. MINIMUM STANDARDS. A campground or | ||
| recreational vehicle park to which this chapter applies must comply | ||
| with the NFPA 1194, Standard for Recreational Vehicle Parks and | ||
| Campgrounds, 2014 Edition, other than Section 1.1.1. | ||
| Sec. 769.004. EFFECT OF OTHER LAW. A governmental entity | ||
| may adopt a law, policy, rule, regulation, ordinance, or order that | ||
| regulates environmental health and sanitation, safety of | ||
| electrical distribution systems, safety of liquefied petroleum gas | ||
| storage and dispensing, or fire protection, provided that the law, | ||
| policy, rule, regulation, ordinance, or order does not impose | ||
| standards more stringent than the standards under Section 769.003. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Notwithstanding Chapter 769, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act, a recreational vehicle park or | ||
| campground to which that chapter applies operating on the effective | ||
| date of this Act is not required to comply with that chapter before | ||
| September 1, 2016. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Section 769.004, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, a recreational vehicle park or | ||
| campground described by Subsection (a) of this section, during the | ||
| period following the effective date of this Act until the date the | ||
| recreational vehicle park or campground is in compliance with | ||
| Chapter 769, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, is | ||
| subject to any other state or local laws, policies, rules, | ||
| regulations, ordinances, or orders applicable to a recreational | ||
| vehicle park or campground. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
