Bill Text: TX SB1450 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to third-party review of development documents and inspection of improvements required to be approved by a political subdivision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-19 - Filed [SB1450 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB1450-Introduced.html
| 89R4199 SCL-F | ||
| By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1450 | |
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| relating to third-party review of development documents and | ||
| inspection of improvements required to be approved by a political | ||
| subdivision. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 247.002, Local Government Code, as added | ||
| by Chapter 654 (H.B. 14), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 247.002. THIRD-PARTY REVIEW OR INSPECTION REQUIRED. | ||
| (a) If a regulatory authority does not approve, conditionally | ||
| approve, or disapprove a development document, including a | ||
| development permit, by the 15th day after the date prescribed by a | ||
| provision of this code for the approval, conditional approval, or | ||
| disapproval of the document, any required review of the document | ||
| may be performed by a person: | ||
| (1) other than: | ||
| (A) the applicant; or | ||
| (B) a person whose work is the subject of the | ||
| application; and | ||
| (2) who is: | ||
| (A) employed by the regulatory authority to | ||
| review development documents; | ||
| (B) employed by another political subdivision to | ||
| review development documents, if the regulatory authority has | ||
| approved the person to review development documents; or | ||
| (C) an engineer licensed under Chapter 1001, | ||
| Occupations Code. | ||
| (b) If a regulatory authority does not conduct a required | ||
| development inspection by the 15th day after the date prescribed by | ||
| a provision of this code for conducting the inspection, the | ||
| inspection may be conducted by a person: | ||
| (1) other than: | ||
| (A) the owner of the land or improvement to the | ||
| land that is the subject of the inspection; or | ||
| (B) a person whose work is the subject of the | ||
| inspection; and | ||
| (2) who is: | ||
| (A) certified [ |
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| International Code Council; | ||
| (B) employed by the regulatory authority as a | ||
| building inspector; | ||
| (C) employed by another political subdivision as | ||
| a building inspector, if the regulatory authority has approved the | ||
| person to perform inspections; or | ||
| (D) an engineer licensed under Chapter 1001, | ||
| Occupations Code. | ||
| (c) A political subdivision is not liable for a review or | ||
| inspection performed by a third party under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 247.002(a), Local Government Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, and Section 247.002(c), Local Government Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, are 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, 2025. | ||
