By: Stickland H.B. No. 983 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the repeal of the requirement that counties and municipalities offer to remove graffiti from private property free of charge before requiring the property owner to remove the graffiti. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 250.006(b), Local Government Code, is repealed. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.