By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1027
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to zoning regulations.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 211.003, Chapter 211, Title 7, Local
    1-4  Government Code is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 211.003.  Zoning Regulations Generally.  (a)  The
    1-6  governing body of a municipality may regulate:
    1-7              (1)  the height, number of stories, and size of
    1-8  buildings and other structures;
    1-9              (2)  the percentage of a lot that may be occupied;
   1-10              (3)  the size of yards, courts, and other open spaces;
   1-11              (4)  population density; and
   1-12              (5)  the location and use of buildings, other
   1-13  structures, and land for business, industrial, residential, or
   1-14  other purposes.
   1-15        (b)  In the case of designated places and areas of
   1-16  historical, cultural, or architectural importance and significance,
   1-17  the governing body of a municipality may regulate the construction,
   1-18  reconstruction, alteration, or razing of buildings and other
   1-19  structures.
   1-20        (c)  The governing body of a home-rule municipality may also
   1-21  regulate the bulk of buildings.
   1-22        (d)  The governing body of a municipality may not regulate
   1-23  new manufactured or industrialized housing, constructed to
    2-1  preemptive state or federal building standards, for siting or
    2-2  zoning purposes in any manner that is different from regulation of
    2-3  site-built housing.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.