Bill Text: TX HB4637 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to protesting changes to municipal zoning regulations and boundaries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-19 - Left pending in committee [HB4637 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4637-Introduced.html
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| By: Sherman, Sr. | H.B. No. 4637 | |
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| relating to protesting changes to municipal zoning regulations and | ||
| boundaries. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 211.006(d), Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (d) If a proposed change to a regulation or boundary is | ||
| protested in accordance with this subsection, the proposed change | ||
| must receive, in order to take effect, the affirmative vote of at | ||
| least three-fourths of all members of the governing body. The | ||
| protest must be written and signed by the owners of at least 50 [ |
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| percent of either: | ||
| (1) the area of the lots or land covered by the | ||
| proposed change; or | ||
| (2) the area of the lots or land immediately adjoining | ||
| the area covered by the proposed change and extending 200 feet from | ||
| that area. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a proposal to change a municipal zoning regulation or zoning | ||
| district boundary made on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| A proposal to change a municipal zoning regulation or zoning | ||
| district boundary made before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the proposal was made, and | ||
| the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
