Bill Text: TX HB36 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a moratorium on development of land located near the state's largest Mexican free-tailed bat population.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-05 - Filed [HB36 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB36-Introduced.html
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By: Larson | H.B. No. 36 |
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relating to a moratorium on development of land located near the | ||
state's largest Mexican free-tailed bat population. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 212, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 212.905 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 212.905. MORATORIUM ON DEVELOPMENT NEAR BAT CAVE | ||
PRESERVE. A municipality shall impose a moratorium on the | ||
development of land located in the municipality or the | ||
municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that is within five | ||
miles of a nature preserve that is the site of the state's largest | ||
Mexican free-tailed bat population until a study of the | ||
development's environmental effects is completed. The requirements | ||
and limitations of Subchapter E do not apply to a moratorium imposed | ||
under this section. | ||
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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |