By: Raymond (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 2033
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2015;
April 30, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 2015, reported adversely,
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4,
Nays 2; May 13, 2015, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2033 By: Lucio
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing counties to require the submission of
digital maps in connection with the county plat approval process.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 232.001, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The commissioners court may require a plat application
submitted for approval to include a digital map that is compatible
with other mapping systems used by the county and that
georeferences the subdivision plat and related public
infrastructure using the Texas Coordinate Systems adopted under
Section 21.071, Natural Resources Code. A digital map required
under this subsection may be required only in a format widely used
by common geographic information system software. A requirement
adopted under this subsection must provide for an exemption from
the requirement if the owner of the tract submits with the plat
application an acknowledged statement indicating that the digital
mapping technology necessary to submit a map that complies with
this subsection was not reasonably accessible.
SECTION 2. Section 232.023, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The commissioners court may require a plat application
submitted for approval to include a digital map that is compatible
with other mapping systems used by the county and that
georeferences the subdivision plat and related public
infrastructure using the Texas Coordinate Systems adopted under
Section 21.071, Natural Resources Code. A digital map required
under this subsection may be required only in a format widely used
by common geographic information system software. A requirement
adopted under this subsection must provide for an exemption from
the requirement if the subdivider of the tract submits with the plat
application an acknowledged statement indicating that the digital
mapping technology necessary to submit a map that complies with
this subsection was not reasonably accessible.
SECTION 3. Section 232.072, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) The commissioners court may require a plat application
submitted for approval to include a digital map that is compatible
with other mapping systems used by the county and that
georeferences the subdivision plat and related public
infrastructure using the Texas Coordinate Systems adopted under
Section 21.071, Natural Resources Code. A digital map required
under this subsection may be required only in a format widely used
by common geographic information system software. A requirement
adopted under this subsection must provide for an exemption from
the requirement if the owner of the tract submits with the plat
application an acknowledged statement indicating that the digital
mapping technology necessary to submit a map that complies with
this subsection was not reasonably accessible.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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