Bill Text: TX HB3266 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to construction standards for certain recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3266 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3266-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3266 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3266: | |||
By: Larson | C.S.H.B. No. 3266 |
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relating to construction standards for certain recreational | ||
vehicle parks and campgrounds. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 9, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 769 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 769. RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKS AND CAMPGROUNDS | ||
CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS | ||
Sec. 769.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Governmental entity" means the state, an agency | ||
of the state, or a political subdivision of the state. | ||
(2) "NFPA" means the National Fire Protection | ||
Association. | ||
Sec. 769.002. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies to a | ||
campground or recreational vehicle park consisting of a privately | ||
owned parcel or tract of land under the control of a person, | ||
organization, or other entity, other than a governmental entity, on | ||
which sites for recreational vehicles, recreational park trailers, | ||
or other camping units are offered primarily for transient guest | ||
use by the public or members of an organization for overnight stays. | ||
Sec. 769.003. MINIMUM STANDARDS. A campground or | ||
recreational vehicle park to which this chapter applies must comply | ||
with the NFPA 1194, Standard for Recreational Vehicle Parks and | ||
Campgrounds, 2014 Edition, other than Section 1.1.1. | ||
Sec. 769.004. EFFECT OF OTHER LAW. A governmental entity | ||
may adopt a law, policy, rule, regulation, ordinance, or order that | ||
regulates environmental health and sanitation, safety of | ||
electrical distribution systems, safety of liquefied petroleum gas | ||
storage and dispensing, or fire protection, provided that the law, | ||
policy, rule, regulation, ordinance, or order does not impose | ||
standards more stringent than the standards under Section 769.003. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) Notwithstanding Chapter 769, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as added by this Act, a recreational vehicle park or | ||
campground to which that chapter applies operating on the effective | ||
date of this Act is not required to comply with that chapter before | ||
September 1, 2016. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 769.004, Health and Safety | ||
Code, as added by this Act, a recreational vehicle park or | ||
campground described by Subsection (a) of this section, during the | ||
period following the effective date of this Act until the date the | ||
recreational vehicle park or campground is in compliance with | ||
Chapter 769, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, is | ||
subject to any other state or local laws, policies, rules, | ||
regulations, ordinances, or orders applicable to a recreational | ||
vehicle park or campground. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |