Bill Text: TX HB4410 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authority of counties and municipalities to limit the photography of critical infrastructure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to County Affairs [HB4410 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4410-Introduced.html
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By: Cain | H.B. No. 4410 |
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relating to authority of counties and municipalities to limit the | ||
photography of critical infrastructure. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 250.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 250.009. PHOTOGRAPHY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. (a) | ||
In this section, "critical infrastructure" includes all public or | ||
private assets, systems, and functions vital to the security, | ||
governance, public health and safety, economy, or morale of the | ||
state or the nation. | ||
(b) A county by order or a municipality by ordinance may | ||
restrict photography of critical infrastructure. An order or | ||
ordinance adopted under this section must: | ||
(1) state the distance from which critical | ||
infrastructure may not be photographed; and | ||
(2) require notice of the photography restrictions be | ||
posted prominently and conspicuously in public areas around the | ||
critical infrastructure. | ||
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, 2019. |