83S10194 JTS-D
By: Larson H.B. No. 36
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a moratorium on development of land located near the
state's largest Mexican free-tailed bat population.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 212, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 212.905 to read as follows:
Sec. 212.905. MORATORIUM ON DEVELOPMENT NEAR BAT CAVE
PRESERVE. A municipality shall impose a moratorium on the
development of land located in the municipality or the
municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that is within five
miles of a nature preserve that is the site of the state's largest
Mexican free-tailed bat population until a study of the
development's environmental effects is completed. The requirements
and limitations of Subchapter E do not apply to a moratorium imposed
under this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.