BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 2792 By: Homer Urban Affairs Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, Texas law allows only a home-rule municipality to license, regulate, control or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance. H.B. 2792 extends that authority to all municipalities. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 2792 amends the Local Government Code to authorize any type of municipality to license, regulate, control, or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance, rather than limiting that authority to a home-rule municipality. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the act does not receive the necessary vote, the act takes effect September 1, 2009.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 2792
By: Homer
Urban Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 2792
By: Homer
Urban Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, Texas law allows only a home-rule municipality to license, regulate, control or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance. H.B. 2792 extends that authority to all municipalities.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 2792 amends the Local Government Code to authorize any type of municipality to license, regulate, control, or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance, rather than limiting that authority to a home-rule municipality.
EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the act does not receive the necessary vote, the act takes effect September 1, 2009.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Currently, Texas law allows only a home-rule municipality to license, regulate, control or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance.
H.B. 2792 extends that authority to all municipalities.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 2792 amends the Local Government Code to authorize any type of municipality to license, regulate, control, or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance, rather than limiting that authority to a home-rule municipality.
EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the act does not receive the necessary vote, the act takes effect September 1, 2009.