Bill Text: TX SB86 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 86 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of raising or keeping chickens on single-family residential lots by a municipality.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB86 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB86-Comm_Sub.html

	86R29978 NC-D

	By: Hall, et al.	S.B. No. 86

	(White)

	Substitute the following for S.B. No. 86: No.



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the regulation of raising or keeping chickens on
	single-family residential lots by a municipality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 217, Local Government Code, is amended
	by adding Subchapter D to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER D. MISCELLANEOUS REGULATORY AUTHORITY
	Sec. 217.051. SIX CHICKENS ALLOWED ON SINGLE-FAMILY
	RESIDENTIAL LOT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as
	provided by Subsection (b), a municipality may not adopt or enforce
	an ordinance that prohibits the raising or keeping of six or fewer
	chickens on a single-family residential lot.
	(b) A municipality may impose reasonable regulations on the
	raising or keeping of poultry on a single-family residential lot
	that do not have the effect of prohibiting the raising or keeping of
	six or fewer chickens, including:
	(1) a limit on the number of chickens that may be
	raised or kept in excess of six;
	(2) a prohibition on breeding poultry;
	(3) a prohibition on raising or keeping roosters; or
	(4) the minimum distance between a chicken coop and a
	residential structure.
	(c) An ordinance adopted by a municipality that violates
	Subsection (a) is void.
	SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 217, Local Government
	Code, as added by this Act, applies to an ordinance adopted before,
	on, or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.