By: Huffines S.B. No. 1679
(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2015; March 23, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 30, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 2;
April 30, 2015, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1679 By: Lucio
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to procedures for a municipality to adopt or amend a
national model building code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 214.217, Local Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 214.217. PROCEDURES FOR [NOTICE REGARDING] MODEL CODE
ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT [IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES].
SECTION 2. Section 214.217, Local Government Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (g) to
read as follows:
(e) The [On the written request from five or more persons,
the] governing body of the municipality shall hold two public
hearings [a public hearing] open to public comment on the proposed
adoption of or amendment to a national model code under this
section. The hearings [hearing] must be held on or before the 14th
day before the date the governing body adopts the ordinance that
adopts or amends a national model code under this section.
(g) Before adopting or amending a national model code, the
governing body of a municipality must publish a cost-benefit
analysis of the code or amendment that includes:
(1) estimations of the code's or amendment's:
(A) cost to the local economy;
(B) effect on tax revenue;
(C) effect on net growth in new development in
the municipality; and
(D) additional cost per unit of development in
each type of zoning use designated by the municipality; and
(2) for an amendment that addresses existing or
potential harm to health and safety:
(A) scientific evidence supporting the
probability or likelihood that the harm has occurred or will occur;
and
(B) scientific evidence supporting the
probability or likelihood that the amendment will prevent or
address the harm.
SECTION 3. Section 214.217(b), Local Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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