By: Whitmire  S.B. No. 1360
         (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2007; March 20, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
  Security; April 20, 2007, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 20, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the procedural requirements for a political subdivision
  to adopt airport zoning regulations.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsections (c) and (f), Section 211.015, Local
  Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (c)  The provisions [provision] of this chapter shall not be
  construed to prohibit the adoption or application of any charter
  provision of a home-rule municipality that requires a waiting
  period prior to the adoption of zoning regulations or the
  submission of the initial adoption of zoning regulations to a
  binding referendum election, or both, provided that all procedural
  requirements of this chapter for the adoption of the zoning
  regulation are otherwise complied with. This subsection does not
  apply to the adoption of airport zoning regulations under Chapter
  241.
         (f)  The provisions of this section shall not authorize the
  repeal of:
               (1)  an ordinance approving land-use regulations
  adopted under the provisions of this chapter by a board of directors
  of a reinvestment zone under the authority of Section 311.010(c),
  Tax Code; or
               (2)  an ordinance approving airport zoning regulations
  adopted under Chapter 241.
         SECTION 2.  Section 241.017, Local Government Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  A procedural requirement adopted or applied by a
  political subdivision, including any requirement in the charter of
  a home-rule municipality, that imposes a waiting period before the
  adoption of a zoning regulation or requires the submission of a
  zoning regulation to a binding referendum election does not apply
  to this chapter.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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