By Salinas                                            H.B. No. 2340
         77R6297 JMG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of county governments to regulate
 1-3     subdivision development in the unincorporated areas of a county.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Sections 232.0015(f) and (h), Local Government
 1-6     Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (f)  A county may not require the owner of a tract of land
 1-8     located outside the limits of a municipality who divides the tract
 1-9     into two or more parts to have a plat of the subdivision prepared
1-10     if:
1-11                 (1)  all of the lots of the subdivision are more than
1-12     25 [10] acres in area; and
1-13                 (2)  the owner does not lay out a part of the tract
1-14     described by Section 232.001(a)(3).
1-15           (h)  The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to a
1-16     subdivision of any tract of land belonging to the state or any
1-17     state agency, board, or commission or owned by the permanent school
1-18     fund, the veterans' land fund, or any other dedicated funds of the
1-19     state unless the subdivision lays out a part of the tract described
1-20     by Section 232.001(a)(3).
1-21           SECTION 2.  Section 232.0015(g), Local Government Code, is
1-22     repealed.
1-23           SECTION 3.  Section 232.0015, Local Government Code, as
1-24     amended by this Act, applies only to a tract of land subdivided on
 2-1     or after the effective date of this Act. A tract of land subdivided
 2-2     before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
 2-3     effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
 2-4     law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-5           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.