Bill Text: TX HB1922 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to periodic reauthorization of municipal building permit fees.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-24 - Effective on 1/1/24 [HB1922 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1922-Engrossed.html
  88R8748 MZM-D
 
  By: Dutton, Toth, Schatzline, Burns H.B. No. 1922
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to periodic reauthorization of municipal building permit
  fees.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 214, Local Government
  Code, is amended by adding Section 214.908 to read as follows:
         Sec. 214.908.  REAUTHORIZATION OF BUILDING PERMIT FEES. (a)
  In this section, "building permit fee" means a fee charged by a
  municipality as a condition to constructing, renovating, or
  remodeling a structure.
         (b)  A building permit fee is abolished on the 10th
  anniversary after the date the fee is adopted or most recently
  reauthorized under this section unless the governing body of the
  municipality that adopted or reauthorized the fee:
               (1)  holds a public hearing on the reauthorization of
  the fee; and
               (2)  reauthorizes the fee by vote of the governing
  body.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2024.
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