Bill Text: TX HB3810 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the residential building codes of municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-22 - Placed on intent calendar [HB3810 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3810-Comm_Sub.html
By: Paul (Senate Sponsor - Buckingham) | H.B. No. 3810 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2019; | ||
May 13, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 20, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the residential building codes of municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 214.212, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (a), (c), and (d) and adding | ||
Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
(a) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the | ||
International Residential Code, as it existed on May 1, 2012 | ||
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state. | ||
(c) Subject to Subsection (e), a [ |
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establish procedures: | ||
(1) to adopt local amendments to the International | ||
Residential Code that may add, modify, or remove requirements set | ||
by the code; and | ||
(2) for the administration and enforcement of the | ||
International Residential Code. | ||
(d) A municipality may review and consider amendments made | ||
by the International Code Council to the International Residential | ||
Code after May 1, 2012 [ |
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(e) A municipality may not adopt a local amendment under | ||
Subsection (c) unless the municipality: | ||
(1) holds a public hearing on the local amendment | ||
before adopting the local amendment; and | ||
(2) adopts the local amendment by ordinance. | ||
(f) This section does not affect provisions regarding the | ||
installation of a fire sprinkler protection system under Section | ||
1301.551(i), Occupations Code, or Section 775.045(a)(1), Health | ||
and Safety Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 214.217(e), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) On the written request from five or more persons or if | ||
required by Section 214.212(e), the governing body of the | ||
municipality shall hold a public hearing open to public comment on | ||
the proposed adoption of or amendment to a national model code under | ||
this section. The hearing must be held on or before the 14th day | ||
before the date the governing body adopts the ordinance that adopts | ||
or amends a national model code under this section. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Section 214.212, Local Government Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to residential construction, | ||
remodeling, alteration, or repair that begins under an agreement | ||
made on or after January 1, 2020, or that begins, in the absence of | ||
an agreement, on or after that date. Residential construction, | ||
remodeling, alteration, or repair that begins under an agreement | ||
made before January 1, 2020, or that begins, in the absence of an | ||
agreement, before that date is governed by the law in effect when | ||
the agreement was made or the activity began, as appropriate, and | ||
that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
(b) Municipalities shall, before January 1, 2020, establish | ||
rules and take other necessary actions to implement Section | ||
214.212, Local Government Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020, except | ||
that Section 3(b) and this section take effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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