Bill Text: TX HB1830 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas A&M Forest Service to identify urban areas with a canopy coverage disparity and plant trees in those areas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-07 - Referred to Agriculture & Livestock [HB1830 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1830-Introduced.html
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| By: Talarico | H.B. No. 1830 | |
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| relating to the authority of the Texas A&M Forest Service to | ||
| identify urban areas with a canopy coverage disparity and plant | ||
| trees in those areas. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 88, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 88.1105 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 88.1105. PLANTING TREES IN URBAN AREAS WITH CANOPY | ||
| COVERAGE DISPARITY. (a) The Texas A&M Forest Service may partner | ||
| with a political subdivision to identify an area in an urban area | ||
| with a disparity in canopy coverage in comparison to other areas in | ||
| the same political subdivision. | ||
| (b) On identification of an area under Subsection (a), the | ||
| Texas A&M Forest Service, in collaboration with the political | ||
| subdivision, may plant trees in the area. | ||
| 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. | ||
