Bill Text: TX SB55 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for certain municipalities to adopt or amend a national model building code.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-17 - Filed [SB55 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB55-Introduced.html
By: Huffines | S.B. No. 55 | |
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relating to procedures for certain municipalities to adopt or amend | ||
a national model building code. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 214.217, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 214.217. PROCEDURES FOR [ |
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ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 214.217, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (b) and (e) and adding Subsection | ||
(g) to read as follows: | ||
(b) This section applies only to a municipality with a | ||
population of more than 40,000 [ |
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(e) The [ |
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open to public comment on the proposed adoption of or amendment to a | ||
national model code under this section. The hearing must be held on | ||
or before the 14th day before the date the governing body adopts the | ||
ordinance that adopts or amends a national model code under this | ||
section. | ||
(g) On or before the 30th day before the date of a hearing | ||
under Subsection (e), the governing body must publish a | ||
cost-benefit analysis of the code or amendment that includes: | ||
(1) estimations of the code's or amendment's: | ||
(A) cost to the local economy; | ||
(B) effect on tax revenue; | ||
(C) effect on net growth in new development in | ||
the municipality; and | ||
(D) additional cost per unit of development in | ||
each type of zoning use designated by the municipality; and | ||
(2) for an amendment that addresses existing or | ||
potential harm to health and safety: | ||
(A) scientific evidence supporting the | ||
probability or likelihood that the harm has occurred or will occur; | ||
and | ||
(B) scientific evidence supporting the | ||
probability or likelihood that the amendment will prevent or | ||
address the harm. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |