Bill Text: TX SB595 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of wind-powered energy device construction areas by certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB595 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB595-Introduced.html
| 87R1278 MP-F | ||
| By: Gutierrez | S.B. No. 595 | |
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| relating to the designation of wind-powered energy device | ||
| construction areas by certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 240, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter F to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER F. WIND-POWERED ENERGY DEVICES | ||
| Sec. 240.101. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Military aviation facility" means a base, | ||
| station, fort, or camp at which fixed-wing aviation operations or | ||
| training is conducted by the United States Air Force, the United | ||
| States Air Force Reserve, the United States Army, the United States | ||
| Army Reserve, the United States Navy, the United States Navy | ||
| Reserve, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Marine | ||
| Corps Reserve, the United States Coast Guard, the United States | ||
| Coast Guard Reserve, or the Texas National Guard. | ||
| (2) "Wind-powered energy device" means an apparatus | ||
| designed or adapted to: | ||
| (A) convert the energy available in the wind into | ||
| thermal, mechanical, or electrical energy; | ||
| (B) store the energy converted under Paragraph | ||
| (A), either in the form to which originally converted or another | ||
| form; or | ||
| (C) distribute the energy converted under | ||
| Paragraph (A). | ||
| Sec. 240.102. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter | ||
| applies only to a county: | ||
| (1) that is located adjacent to an international | ||
| border; and | ||
| (2) in which a military aviation facility that trains | ||
| military personnel to pilot aircraft and a national recreation area | ||
| are located. | ||
| Sec. 240.103. DESIGNATION OF CONSTRUCTION AREAS. (a) The | ||
| commissioners court of a county by order may, in collaboration with | ||
| the military aviation facility located in the county: | ||
| (1) designate one or more appropriate locations for a | ||
| person to install a wind-powered energy device in the | ||
| unincorporated area of the county in accordance with this section; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) prohibit the installation of a wind-powered energy | ||
| device in the county in an area other than a designated area. | ||
| (b) An order under Subsection (a) may not apply to a | ||
| wind-powered energy device installed before the effective date of | ||
| the order. | ||
| (c) Areas designated by a county under Subsection (a) must | ||
| maintain compatibility with the activities of the military aviation | ||
| facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
