Bill Text: TX SB1947 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the time for the issuance of municipal building permits and to the approval of certain land development applications by a municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-18 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [SB1947 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1947-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the time for the issuance of municipal building permits and to the approval of certain land development applications by a municipality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-18 - Referred to Land & Resource Management [SB1947 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1947-Comm_Sub.html
By: Springer | S.B. No. 1947 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2021; April 1, 2021, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Local Government; | ||
May 11, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; May 11, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the time for the issuance of municipal building | ||
permits. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 214.904, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (b) and (d) and adding Subsection | ||
(e) to read as follows: | ||
(b) Not later than the 45th day after the date an | ||
application for a permit is submitted, the municipality must: | ||
(1) grant or deny the permit; or | ||
(2) provide written notice to the applicant stating | ||
the reasons why the municipality has been unable to grant or deny | ||
the permit application in the time required by this subsection[ |
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(d) If a municipality fails to comply with this section | ||
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municipality: | ||
(1) may not collect any permit fees associated with | ||
the application; and | ||
(2) shall refund to the applicant any permit fees | ||
associated with the application that have been collected. | ||
(e) A municipality may not: | ||
(1) deny a permit solely because the municipality is | ||
unable to comply with this section; or | ||
(2) require an applicant to waive the requirements of | ||
this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 214.904, Local Government Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to a municipal building permit | ||
application that is submitted on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. An application submitted before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was | ||
submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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