Texas 2019 86th Regular

Texas House Bill HB2956 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/04/2019

                    86R13253 SCL-D
 By: Zwiener H.B. No. 2956


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the authority of a county to regulate impervious cover
 in certain floodplains.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 240, Local Government
 Code, is amended by adding Section 240.910 to read as follows:
 Sec. 240.910.  REGULATION OF IMPERVIOUS COVER IN CERTAIN
 FLOODPLAINS. The commissioners court of a county may regulate,
 including by adopting zoning regulations, impervious cover located
 in the unincorporated area of the county and in the 100-year
 floodplain of perennial and intermittent streams and rivers.
 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 September 1, 2019.