Bill Text: TX HB2672 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to safety measures for culverts or other similar flood or drainage systems maintained by governmental entities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2672 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2672-Comm_Sub.html
By: Dutton | H.B. No. 2672 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2672: | |||
By: Mallory Caraway | C.S.H.B. No. 2672 |
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relating to safety measures for culverts or other similar flood or | ||
drainage systems maintained by governmental entities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Logan's Law. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 756, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subchapter I to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER I. CULVERTS OR OTHER DRAINAGE SYSTEMS | ||
Sec. 756.151. DUTY OF MUNICIPALITY. (a) This section | ||
applies only to an intake to a culvert or other enclosed flood or | ||
drainage system that is: | ||
(1) maintained by a municipality with a population of | ||
more than two million; and | ||
(2) located within 100 feet of an elementary school. | ||
(b) A municipality shall ensure that: | ||
(1) each intake described by Subsection (a) is | ||
protected by a bar, grate, or other appropriate covering sufficient | ||
to ensure that a child may not be swept into the system; and | ||
(2) a sign warning of the hazard for a child, including | ||
the danger for injury or drowning, is clearly posted at the intake. | ||
(c) A municipality shall ensure that each culvert or other | ||
enclosed flood or drainage system with an intake that is subject to | ||
the requirements of this section has a hinged opening or other type | ||
of opening and closing mechanism to permit emergency services | ||
personnel to access the system. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2011, a municipality | ||
with a population of more than two million shall ensure that each | ||
culvert or other enclosed flood or drainage system and each intake | ||
to the system meets the requirements of Section 756.151, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2011. |