Bill Text: TX HB852 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to information a municipality may consider in determining the amount of certain building permit and inspection fees.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 10)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-21 - Effective immediately [HB852 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB852-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 852 | ||
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| relating to information a municipality may consider in determining | ||
| the amount of certain building permit and inspection fees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 214, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 214.907 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 214.907. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN VALUE-BASED BUILDING | ||
| PERMIT AND INSPECTION FEES. (a) In determining the amount of a | ||
| building permit or inspection fee required in connection with the | ||
| construction or improvement of a residential dwelling, a | ||
| municipality may not consider: | ||
| (1) the value of the dwelling; or | ||
| (2) the cost of constructing or improving the | ||
| dwelling. | ||
| (b) A municipality may not require the disclosure of | ||
| information related to the value of or cost of constructing or | ||
| improving a residential dwelling as a condition of obtaining a | ||
| building permit except as required by the Federal Emergency | ||
| Management Agency for participation in the National Flood Insurance | ||
| Program. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 214.907(a), Local Government Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to a building permit or inspection | ||
| fee assessed by a municipality on or after the effective date of | ||
| this Act in connection with the construction or improvement of a | ||
| residential dwelling. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 852 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 9, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 852 was passed by the Senate on May 8, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
