Bill Text: TX HB4503 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to municipal or county authority to prohibit the use of natural gas utility service in a building.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to State Affairs [HB4503 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4503-Introduced.html
87R11867 SGM-D | ||
By: Cain | H.B. No. 4503 |
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relating to municipal or county authority to prohibit the use of | ||
natural gas utility service in a building. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 250.012 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 250.012. NATURAL GAS UTILITY SERVICE. Notwithstanding | ||
any other law, a municipality or county may not adopt or enforce an | ||
ordinance, order, or other regulation that prohibits the use of | ||
natural gas utility service in a building as a condition to receive | ||
a permit or other approval required to construct or improve the | ||
building. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an application for a permit or other approval filed on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |