Bill Text: TX HB572 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the confiscation of packaged, unopened fireworks by a municipality that regulates fireworks.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-27 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB572 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB572-Introduced.html

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88R2473 AMF-F
By: Bowers H.B. No. 572

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the confiscation of packaged, unopened fireworks by a
municipality that regulates fireworks.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 342.003(c), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) Subsection (a)(8) does not authorize a municipality to
confiscate fireworks in the possession of a person if the person
possesses only packaged, unopened fireworks.
SECTION 2. Section 342.013(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A home-rule municipality that regulates fireworks may
not confiscate fireworks in the possession of a person if the person
possesses only packaged, unopened fireworks.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.