Bill Amendment: TX HB3697 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Relating to county regulation of subdivisions and approval of subdivision plans or plats.

Status: 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3697 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3697-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F2-Huffman.html

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Amend CSHB 3697 (senate committee report) as follows:

(1)  Strike the recital to SECTION 4 of the bill (page 2, lines 13 and 14) and substitute the following:

SECTION 4.  Section 232.101, Local Government Code, is amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:

(2)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in amended Section 232.101(b)(4), Local Government Code (page 2, line 34), between "(4)" and "the", insert "except as provided by Subsection (b-1),".

(3)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, immediately after amended Section 232.101(b), Local Government Code (page 2, between lines 43 and 44), insert the following:

(b-1)  A county that has a population of more than 370,000 and contains more than eight municipalities, each with a population of less than 2,000, may regulate the minimum size of a lot, dimensions of a lot, minimum width of a lot frontage, minimum distance a lot must be set back from a road or property line, or another component of lot density on a particular tract of land that the county may otherwise regulate under other law.

(4)  Strike SECTION 5 of the bill, repealing Sections 232.103 and 232.104, Local Government Code (page 2, lines 44 and 45).

(5)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 232.103, Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 232.103.  LOT FRONTAGES. Subject to Sections 232.101(b) and (b-1), by [By] an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, the commissioners court may adopt reasonable standards for minimum lot frontages on existing county roads and establish reasonable standards for the lot frontages in relation to curves in the road.

SECTION ____.  Section 232.104, Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 232.104.  SET-BACKS. Subject to Sections 232.101(b) and (b-1), by [By] an order adopted and entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, the commissioners court may establish reasonable building and set-back lines as provided by Chapter 233 without the limitation period provided by Section 233.034(c) [233.004(c)].