Bill Text: TX SB304 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts over health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB304 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB304-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 304 | |
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| relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts over health and | ||
| safety and nuisance abatement ordinances. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 29.003, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The governing body of a municipality by ordinance may | ||
| provide that the court has: | ||
| (1) civil jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing | ||
| municipal ordinances enacted under Subchapter A, Chapter 214, Local | ||
| Government Code, or Subchapter E, Chapter 683, Transportation Code; | ||
| (2) concurrent jurisdiction with a district court or a | ||
| county court at law under Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Local | ||
| Government Code, within the municipality's territorial limits and | ||
| property owned by the municipality located in the municipality's | ||
| extraterritorial jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing health | ||
| and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances; and | ||
| (3) authority to issue: | ||
| (A) search warrants for the purpose of | ||
| investigating a health and safety or nuisance abatement ordinance | ||
| violation; and | ||
| (B) seizure warrants for the purpose of securing, | ||
| removing, or demolishing the offending property and removing the | ||
| debris from the premises. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
