Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 3167	House Author:  Oliverson et al.
Effective:  9-1-19	Senate Sponsor:  Hughes

            House Bill 3167 amends the Local Government Code to revise provisions relating to municipal and county approval procedures for land development applications. With respect to municipalities, the bill, among other provisions, provides for municipal approval of a subdivision development plan and for the extension of the approval deadline for a plat. With respect to counties, the bill, among other provisions, shortens the deadline for approval of a plat application.

            House Bill 3167, with respect to both municipalities and counties, sets out a procedure by which the applicable entity that conditionally approves or disapproves a plan, plat, or plat application is required to provide the applicant a written statement of the conditions for the conditional approval or reasons for disapproval. The bill provides for the satisfaction and remedy of those conditions and reasons by the applicant and for the approval of the previously conditionally approved or disapproved plan, plat, or plat application.