Bill Text: TX HB3804 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to fire protection sprinkler system requirements for certain residential buildings by municipalities, counties, and emergency services districts.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB3804 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3804-Introduced.html
  88R3720 SGM-F
 
  By: Shine H.B. No. 3804
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to fire protection sprinkler system requirements for
  certain residential buildings by municipalities, counties, and
  emergency services districts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 250.011(a), Local Government Code, as
  added by Chapter 315 (H.B. 738), Acts of the 87th Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2021, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by
  Subsection (c), a municipality, county, or emergency services
  district may not enact an ordinance, bylaw, order, building code,
  or rule that in any manner requires or conditions, directly or
  indirectly, any regulatory approval on [requiring] the
  installation of a multipurpose residential fire protection
  sprinkler system or any other fire protection sprinkler system in a
  new or existing one- or two-family dwelling.
         SECTION 2.  The amendment by this Act of Section 250.011,
  Local Government Code, is intended to clarify rather than change
  existing law.
         SECTION 3.  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.
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