By: Ratliff (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 674
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 2013;
April 24, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 2013, reported adversely,
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; May 14, 2013, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 674 By: Nichols
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing notice of certain proposed municipal zoning
changes to a school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 211.007, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (c-1) and (c-2) to read as follows:
(c-1) Before the 10th day before the hearing date, written
notice of each public hearing before the zoning commission on a
proposed change in a zoning classification affecting residential or
multifamily zoning shall be sent to each school district in which
the property for which the change in classification is proposed is
located. The notice may be served by its deposit in the
municipality, properly addressed with postage paid, in the United
States mail.
(c-2) Subsection (c-1) does not apply to a municipality the
majority of which is located in a county with a population of
100,000 or less, except that such a municipality must give notice
under Subsection (c-1) to a school district that has territory in
the municipality and requests the notice. For purposes of this
subsection, if a school district makes a request for notice under
Subsection (c-1), the municipality must give notice of each public
hearing held following the request unless the school district
requests that no further notices under Subsection (c-1) be given to
the school district.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a proposal to change a municipal zoning classification made on or
after the effective date of this Act. A proposal to change a
municipal zoning classification made before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the proposal
was made, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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