Texas 2025 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB2225 Comm Sub / Bill

Filed 04/24/2025

                    89R6199 JBD-D
 By: Buckley, Dyson, Alders, et al. H.B. No. 2225




 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the approval of land use assumptions, capital
 improvement plans, and impact fees.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 395.043, Local Government Code, is
 amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 395.043.  INFORMATION ABOUT LAND USE ASSUMPTIONS AND
 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC. At least 60 days [On
 or] before the date of the first publication of the notice of the
 hearing on the land use assumptions and capital improvements plan,
 the political subdivision shall make available to the public its
 land use assumptions, the time period of the projections, and a
 description of the capital improvement facilities that may be
 proposed.
 SECTION 2.  Section 395.051(a), Local Government Code, is
 amended to read as follows:
 (a)  The political subdivision, within 30 days after the date
 of the public hearing on the imposition of an impact fee, shall
 approve or disapprove the imposition of an impact fee.  Approval of
 the imposition of an impact fee by a political subdivision requires
 an affirmative vote of three-fourths of the members of the
 governing body of the political subdivision.
 SECTION 3.  Subchapter C, Chapter 395, Local Government
 Code, is amended by adding Section 395.0515 to read as follows:
 Sec. 395.0515.  LIMITATION ON IMPACT FEE INCREASE. A
 political subdivision may not increase the amount of an impact fee
 for five years from the later of the date the fee was adopted or most
 recently increased, if applicable.
 SECTION 4.  Section 395.053, Local Government Code, is
 amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 395.053.  HEARING ON UPDATED LAND USE ASSUMPTIONS AND
 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN. The governing body of the political
 subdivision shall, within 120 [60] days after the date it receives
 the update of the land use assumptions and the capital improvements
 plan, adopt an order setting a public hearing to discuss and review
 the update and shall determine whether to amend the plan.
 SECTION 5.  Section 395.054, Local Government Code, is
 amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 395.054.  HEARING ON AMENDMENTS TO LAND USE
 ASSUMPTIONS, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN, OR IMPACT FEE.  A public
 hearing must be held by the governing body of the political
 subdivision to discuss the proposed ordinance, order, or resolution
 amending land use assumptions, the capital improvements plan, or
 the impact fee.  At least 60 days [On or] before the date of the
 first publication of the notice of the hearing on the amendments,
 the land use assumptions and the capital improvements plan,
 including the amount of any proposed amended impact fee per service
 unit, shall be made available to the public.
 SECTION 6.  Section 395.058(b), Local Government Code, is
 amended to read as follows:
 (b)  The advisory committee is composed of not less than five
 members who shall be appointed by a majority vote of the governing
 body of the political subdivision.  Not less than 50 [40] percent of
 the membership of the advisory committee must be representatives of
 the real estate, development, or building industries who are not
 employees or officials of a political subdivision or governmental
 entity.  [If the political subdivision has a planning and zoning
 commission, the commission may act as the advisory committee if the
 commission includes at least one representative of the real estate,
 development, or building industry who is not an employee or
 official of a political subdivision or governmental entity.  If no
 such representative is a member of the planning and zoning
 commission, the commission may still act as the advisory committee
 if at least one such representative is appointed by the political
 subdivision as an ad hoc voting member of the planning and zoning
 commission when it acts as the advisory committee.]  If the impact
 fee is to be applied in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the
 political subdivision, the membership must include a
 representative from that area.
 SECTION 7.  Sections 395.043 and 395.054, Local Government
 Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to a land use assumption,
 capital improvement plan, or impact fee that is the subject of a
 public hearing required to be held by Section 395.042 or 395.053 of
 that code, as applicable, that is held on or after the 90th day
 after the effective date of this Act. A land use assumption,
 capital improvement plan, or impact fee subject to a public hearing
 that is held before the 90th day after the effective date of this
 Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the
 effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
 effect for that purpose.
 SECTION 8.  Section 395.051(a), Local Government Code, as
 amended by this Act, applies only to the approval of the imposition
 of an impact fee on or after the effective date of this Act.
 SECTION 9.  Section 395.0515, Local Government Code, as
 added by this Act, applies only to the increase of the amount of an
 impact fee that is adopted on or after the effective date of this
 Act.
 SECTION 10.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.