Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB636 Compare Versions

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1	1		By: Huffines S.B. No. 636
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed January 27, 2017; February 13, 2017,
3		-	read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
4		-	Relations; April 26, 2017, reported favorably by the following
5		-	vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0, 1 present not voting; April 26, 2017, sent
6		-	to printer.)
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9	4		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	5		AN ACT
11	6		relating to procedures for certain municipalities to adopt or amend
12	7		a national model building code.
13	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	9		SECTION 1. The heading to Section 214.217, Local Government
15	10		Code, is amended to read as follows:
16	11		Sec. 214.217. PROCEDURES FOR [NOTICE REGARDING] MODEL CODE
17	12		ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.
18	13		SECTION 2. Section 214.217, Local Government Code, is
19	14		amended by amending Subsections (b) and (e) and adding Subsection
20	15		(g) to read as follows:
21	16		(b) This section applies only to a municipality with a
22	17		population of more than 40,000 [100,000].
23	18		(e) The [On the written request from five or more persons,
24	19		the] governing body of the municipality shall hold a public hearing
25	20		open to public comment on the proposed adoption of or amendment to a
26	21		national model code under this section. The hearing must be held on
27	22		or before the 14th day before the date the governing body adopts the
28	23		ordinance that adopts or amends a national model code under this
29	24		section.
30	25		(g) On or before the 30th day before the date of a hearing
31	26		under Subsection (e), the governing body must publish a
32		-	cost-benefit analysis of ~~the code or~~ amendment that includes:
33		-	(1) estimations of the ~~code's or~~ amendment's:
	27	+	cost-benefit analysis of any amendment that includes:
	28	+	(1) estimations of the amendment's:
34	29		(A) cost to the local economy;
35	30		(B) effect on tax revenue;
36	31		(C) effect on net growth in new development in
37	32		the municipality; and
38	33		(D) additional cost per unit of development in
39	34		each type of zoning use designated by the municipality; and
40	35		(2) for an amendment that addresses existing or
41	36		potential harm to health and safety:
42	37		(A) scientific evidence supporting the
43	38		probability or likelihood that the harm has occurred or will occur;
44	39		and
45	40		(B) scientific evidence supporting the
46	41		probability or likelihood that the amendment will prevent or
47	42		address the harm.
48	43		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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