BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 2792

By: Homer

Urban Affairs

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Currently, Texas law allows only a home-rule municipality to license, regulate, control or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance.

H.B. 2792 extends that authority to all municipalities.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 2792 amends the Local Government Code to authorize any type of municipality to license, regulate, control, or prohibit the erection of signs or billboards by charter or ordinance, rather than limiting that authority to a home-rule municipality.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the act does not receive the necessary vote, the act takes effect September 1, 2009.