Bill Text: TX HB3813 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to municipal fire suppression standards in certain municipalities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3813 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3813-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3813 | ||
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| relating to municipal fire suppression standards in certain | ||
| municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 342, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter Z to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS | ||
| Sec. 342.901. FIRE SUPPRESSION STANDARDS IN CERTAIN | ||
| MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies to a general law | ||
| municipality that: | ||
| (1) has a population of less than 4,000; | ||
| (2) is located in a county that: | ||
| (A) has a population of more than one | ||
| million; and | ||
| (B) is adjacent to a county with a population of | ||
| more than 420,000; and | ||
| (3) is served by a district governed by Chapter 51, | ||
| Water Code. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the governing body of a | ||
| municipality may by ordinance establish water flow and water | ||
| pressure standards sufficient to provide adequate pressure to fire | ||
| suppression systems and require a district described by Subsection | ||
| (a)(3) that provides water service in the municipality to take | ||
| reasonable measures to comply with those standards. | ||
| (c) Before a municipality adopts an ordinance under this | ||
| section, the municipality and the district described by Subsection | ||
| (a)(3) that is subject to the proposed ordinance shall establish | ||
| the scope of and estimate the costs associated with any capital | ||
| improvements necessary to comply with the proposed ordinance. | ||
| (d) A district described by Subsection (a)(3) may recover | ||
| the costs associated with complying with an ordinance adopted under | ||
| this section through a surcharge assessed only to customers served | ||
| in the municipality to the extent that: | ||
| (1) complying with the ordinance results in additional | ||
| capital improvement costs for the district; and | ||
| (2) the ordinance establishes water flow and water | ||
| pressure standards inside municipal boundaries that are more | ||
| stringent | ||
| than water flow and water pressure standards required | ||
| outside municipal boundaries. | ||
| (e) To the extent of a conflict between this section and any | ||
| other law, this section controls. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3813 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 3813 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 1, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3813 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
