Bill Text: TX SB573 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to municipal requirements for exterior key boxes to provide access to buildings to first responders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Left pending in committee [SB573 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB573-Introduced.html
| 88R2460 SGM-D | ||
| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 573 | |
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| relating to municipal requirements for exterior key boxes to | ||
| provide access to buildings to first responders. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 11, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 350 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 350. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATED TO MUNICIPAL PUBLIC | ||
| SAFETY | ||
| Sec. 350.001. EXTERIOR KEY BOX REQUIREMENTS. A | ||
| municipality that adopts a fire code that requires the owner or | ||
| occupant of a building to maintain an exterior key box to provide a | ||
| first responder with immediate access to the building or a | ||
| restricted area may not require the owner or occupant to purchase | ||
| the key box from a specific manufacturer or vendor. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
