Bill Text: TX HB1836 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the sale of fireworks on and before Texas Independence Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB1836 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1836-Introduced.html

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82R1842 KYF-D
By: Hughes H.B. No. 1836

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sale of fireworks on and before Texas Independence
Day.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2154.202(g), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(g) A retail fireworks permit holder may sell fireworks only
to the public, and only during periods:
(1) beginning February 20 and ending at midnight on
March 2;
(2) beginning June 24 and ending at midnight on July 4;
(3) [(2)] beginning December 20 and ending at midnight
on January 1 of the following year; and
(4) [(3)] beginning May 1 and ending at midnight on
May 5 if the fireworks are sold at a location that is not more than
100 miles from the Texas-Mexico border and that is in a county in
which the commissioners court of the county has approved the sale of
fireworks during the period.
SECTION 2. Section 352.051(b)(1), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(1) The Texas Forest Service in the ordinary course of
its activities shall determine whether drought conditions, as
defined under Subsection (a)(2), exist on average in any county
requesting such a determination. The Texas Forest Service shall
make available the measurement index guidelines used to determine
whether drought conditions exist in a particular area. Following
any determination that such drought conditions exist, the Texas
Forest Service shall notify said county or counties when such
drought conditions no longer exist. The Texas Forest Service shall
make its services available each day during the Texas Independence
Day, Fourth of July, and December fireworks seasons to respond to
the request of any county for a determination whether drought
conditions exist on average in the county.
SECTION 3. Section 352.051(d), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(d) To facilitate compliance with an order adopted under
Subsection (c), the order must be adopted before:
(1) February 15 of each year for the Texas
Independence Day fireworks season;
(2) April 25 of each year for the Cinco de Mayo
fireworks season;
(3) [(2)] June 15 of each year for the Fourth of July
fireworks season; and
(4) [(3)] December 15 of each year for each December
fireworks season.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.