Bill Text: TX HB3804 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fire protection sprinkler system requirements for certain residential buildings by municipalities, counties, and emergency services districts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB3804 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3804-Introduced.html
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| By: Shine | H.B. No. 3804 | |
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| relating to fire protection sprinkler system requirements for | ||
| certain residential buildings by municipalities, counties, and | ||
| emergency services districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 250.011(a), Local Government Code, as | ||
| added by Chapter 315 (H.B. 738), Acts of the 87th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2021, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by | ||
| Subsection (c), a municipality, county, or emergency services | ||
| district may not enact an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code, | ||
| or rule that in any manner requires or conditions, directly or | ||
| indirectly, any regulatory approval on [ |
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| installation of a multipurpose residential fire protection | ||
| sprinkler system or any other fire protection sprinkler system in a | ||
| new or existing one- or two-family dwelling. | ||
| SECTION 2. The amendment by this Act of Section 250.011, | ||
| Local Government Code, is intended to clarify rather than change | ||
| existing law. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
