Bill Text: TX HB5194 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to impose a fee related to building, zoning, or operating certain child-care businesses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB5194 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5194-Introduced.html
| By: Bernal | H.B. No. 5194 | |
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| relating to the authority of a municipality or county to impose a | ||
| fee related to building, zoning, or operating certain child-care | ||
| businesses. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 250.014 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 250.014. FEE TO OPERATE CERTAIN CHILD-CARE BUSINESSES | ||
| PROHIBITED. (a) In this section, "child-care facility", "day-care | ||
| center", "family home", and "group day-care home" have the meanings | ||
| assigned by Section 42.002, Human Resources Code, with the | ||
| exception of an entity for which subsection 11.20(c) of the | ||
| Property Tax Code applies. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality or county | ||
| may not require a person or organization to pay a fee related to | ||
| building, zoning, or operating a licensed child-care facility or | ||
| day-care center. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality or county | ||
| may not require a person or organization to pay a fee related to | ||
| zoning or operating a family home or group day-care home. | ||
| (d) This section shall not be construed to relieve a | ||
| licensed child-care facility, day-care center, family home, or | ||
| group day-care home from acquiring the permits and inspections | ||
| required by a municipality or county for building, rezoning, or | ||
| operating. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
