Bill Text: TX HB2319 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate churches that provide overnight shelter for children.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2319 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2319-Comm_Sub.html
83R23419 NC-D | |||
By: Parker, et al. | H.B. No. 2319 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2319: | |||
By: Farrar | C.S.H.B. No. 2319 |
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relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate churches | ||
that provide overnight shelter for children. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 215, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 215.006 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 215.006. CHURCH PROVIDING OVERNIGHT SHELTER. (a) In | ||
this section: | ||
(1) "Church" means a facility that is owned by a | ||
religious organization and that is used primarily for religious | ||
services. | ||
(2) "Religious organization" means an organization | ||
that meets the standards for qualification as a religious | ||
organization under Section 11.20, Tax Code. | ||
(b) A municipality may not adopt an ordinance, or enforce | ||
an existing ordinance, that prohibits a church from providing | ||
overnight shelter for children 17 years of age and younger. | ||
(c) A municipal ordinance or regulation that relates to the | ||
safe and sanitary operation of a homeless shelter for children | ||
applies to a church that provides overnight shelter for children. | ||
(d) A municipality may adopt or enforce an ordinance | ||
establishing limits on the number of nights a child may use an | ||
overnight shelter provided by a church or on the number of children | ||
that can be housed in the shelter per night. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |