SRC-JEC H.B. 3161 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 3161
77R6555 JMG-DBy: Bonnen (Brown)
Intergovernmental Relations
5/4/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Current law requires counties and local governments to consider the
approval of subdivision plats and permits solely upon the regulations and
rules in place when the permit or application was filed.  Some counties
have had landowners wishing to sell lots on subdivision plats that were
filed nearly 100 years ago.  The original subdivisions do not meet minimal
contemporary infrastructure requirements. Development of these plats would
result in significant burdens on adjacent landowners and on the community.
H.B. 3161 provides that the approval of a subdivision plat by a county
commissioners court expires fifty years after approval. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency.  

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 232.002, Local Government Code, by adding
Subsection (c), to provide that if no portion of the land subdivided under
a plat approved under this section is sold or transferred before January 1
of the 51st year after the year in which the plat was approved, the
approval of the plat expires, and the owner must resubmit a plat of the
subdivision for approval. Provides that a plat resubmitted for approval
under this subsection is subject to the requirements prescribed by this
chapter at the time the plat is resubmitted. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2001.