Bill Text: TX HB1414 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws regulating gas stove usage within the State of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1414 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1414-Introduced.html
By: Toth | H.B. No. 1414 |
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relating to the enforcement of certain federal laws regulating gas | ||
stove usage within the State of Texas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 382.042 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 382.042. ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN FEDERAL LAWS | ||
REGULATING GAS STOVE USAGE. (a) An agency of this state or a person | ||
employed by an agency of this state may not contract with or in any | ||
other manner provide assistance to a federal agency or official | ||
with respect to the enforcement of a federal statute, order, rule, | ||
or regulation purporting to regulate gas stove usage if the | ||
statute, order, rule, or regulation imposes a prohibition, | ||
restriction, or other regulation that does not exist under the laws | ||
of this state. | ||
(b) The attorney general shall defend any agency of this | ||
state that the federal government attempts to sue for an action or | ||
omission consistent with the requirements of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2023. |