Bill Text: TX HB2701 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to construction standards for certain recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - Filed [HB2701 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2701-Introduced.html
| 89R895 LRM-F | ||
| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2701 | |
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| relating to construction standards for certain recreational | ||
| vehicle parks and campgrounds. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 9, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 764 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 764. RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK AND CAMPGROUND CONSTRUCTION | ||
| STANDARDS | ||
| Sec. 764.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "governmental | ||
| entity" means this state or a state agency or political subdivision | ||
| of this state. | ||
| Sec. 764.002. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to | ||
| a recreational vehicle park or campground consisting of a privately | ||
| owned parcel or tract of land under the control of a person or | ||
| entity, other than a governmental entity, on which sites for | ||
| recreational vehicles, recreational park trailers, or other | ||
| camping units are offered primarily for transient guest use by | ||
| members of the public or an organization for overnight stays. | ||
| Sec. 764.003. MINIMUM STANDARDS. A recreational vehicle | ||
| park or campground to which this chapter applies must comply with | ||
| the National Fire Protection Association 1194, Standard for | ||
| Recreational Vehicle Parks and Campgrounds, 2021 Edition, other | ||
| than Section 1.1.1. | ||
| Sec. 764.004. EFFECT OF OTHER LAW. A governmental entity | ||
| may adopt a policy, rule, ordinance, or order to regulate | ||
| environmental health and sanitation, electrical distribution | ||
| system safety, liquefied petroleum gas storage and dispensing | ||
| safety, or fire protection only if the policy, rule, ordinance, or | ||
| order does not impose standards more stringent than the standards | ||
| imposed under Section 764.003. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Chapter 764, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, a recreational vehicle park or | ||
| campground to which that chapter applies operating on the effective | ||
| date of this Act is not required to comply with that chapter before | ||
| September 1, 2026. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
