Bill Text: TX HB1830 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas A&M Forest Service to identify urban areas with a canopy coverage disparity and plant trees in those areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-07 - Referred to Agriculture & Livestock [HB1830 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1830-Introduced.html
  88R4270 SCL-D
 
  By: Talarico H.B. No. 1830
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of the Texas A&M Forest Service to
  identify urban areas with a canopy coverage disparity and plant
  trees in those areas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 88, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 88.1105 to read as follows:
         Sec. 88.1105.  PLANTING TREES IN URBAN AREAS WITH CANOPY
  COVERAGE DISPARITY. (a)  The Texas A&M Forest Service may partner
  with a political subdivision to identify an area in an urban area
  with a disparity in canopy coverage in comparison to other areas in
  the same political subdivision.
         (b)  On identification of an area under Subsection (a), the
  Texas A&M Forest Service, in collaboration with the political
  subdivision, may plant trees in the area.
         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, 2023.
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