BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 4285

By: Rogers

Land & Resource Management

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Concerns have been raised regarding municipal regulations about outdoor signs that apply to property in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. C.S.H.B. 4285 seeks to address these concerns by establishing restrictions on a municipality's enforcement of an outdoor sign prohibition within its extraterritorial jurisdiction.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 4285 amends the Local Government Code to prohibit a municipality that extends its outdoor sign ordinance within its extraterritorial jurisdiction from enforcing a prohibition on an outdoor sign in the extraterritorial jurisdiction unless the municipality adopts the ordinance before the sign is placed and until the municipality annexes the property on which the sign is placed. The bill exempts from this prohibition an area in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that is located within five miles of a military base. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2023.

COMPARISON OF INTRODUCED AND SUBSTITUTE

While C.S.H.B. 4285 may differ from the introduced in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following summarizes the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.

The substitute includes an exemption from the bill's prohibition for an area in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that is located within five miles of a military base, which was not present in the introduced.