Bill Text: TX HB3843 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a county to regulate impervious cover around certain floodplains.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-23 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [HB3843 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3843-Introduced.html
| By: Zwiener | H.B. No. 3843 | |
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| relating to the authority of a county to regulate impervious cover | ||
| around certain floodplains. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 240, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 240.911 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 240.911. REGULATION OF IMPERVIOUS COVER AROUND CERTAIN | ||
| FLOODPLAINS. The commissioners court of a county may regulate, | ||
| including by adopting zoning regulations, impervious cover located | ||
| in the unincorporated area of the county provided that area is also | ||
| within 100 feet outside the 100-year floodplain of perennial and | ||
| intermittent streams and rivers. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2021. | ||
