Bill Text: TX HB288 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for fireworks sales buildings of indoor retail fireworks sites in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-03 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB288 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB288-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Cortez | H.B. No. 288 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 288: | |||
| By: Stucky | C.S.H.B. No. 288 | ||
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| relating to requirements for fireworks sales buildings of indoor | ||
| retail fireworks sites in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E-1, Chapter 2154, Occupations Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 2154.2215 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2154.2215. FIREWORKS SALES BUILDINGS IN CERTAIN | ||
| COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to a county with a | ||
| population of more than 1.5 million in which more than 75 percent of | ||
| the population lives in a single municipality. | ||
| (b) In addition to the requirements of Section 2154.221, a | ||
| fireworks sales building of an indoor retail fireworks site located | ||
| in or directly adjacent to a residential real estate subdivision | ||
| with at least 3,300 homes that is governed by a property owners | ||
| association must: | ||
| (1) be, at the time the building's construction | ||
| commences, a minimum distance of 100 feet from any inhabited | ||
| building; | ||
| (2) have, at a minimum, one-hour fire-rated exterior | ||
| walls with minimum three-fourths-hour fire-rated protected | ||
| openings; and | ||
| (3) have a complete automatic fire sprinkler system | ||
| installed in accordance with the provisions of the edition of the | ||
| National Fire Protection Association, Standard 13, "Standard for | ||
| the Installation of Sprinkler Systems," as adopted and amended by | ||
| the commissioner. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2154.2215, Occupations Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a fireworks sales building of an indoor | ||
| retail fireworks site for which construction commences on or after | ||
| September 1, 2023. A fireworks sales building of an indoor retail | ||
| fireworks site for which construction commenced before that date is | ||
| governed by the law in effect before September 1, 2023, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
