Amend CSHB 3474 (senate committee printing) by adding the following SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. (a) Subchapter B, Chapter 232, Local Government Code, is amended by the adding Section 232.045 to read as follows:
Sec. 232.045. APPLICABILITY OF INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS TO LOTS UNDEVELOPED FOR 25 YEARS OR MORE. (a) This section applies only to a county with a population of more than 800,000 that is adjacent to an international border.
(b) A commissioners court by order may implement a process:
(1) applicable to a subdivision in which 50 percent or more of the lots are undeveloped or unoccupied on or after the 25th anniversary of the date the plat for the subdivision was recorded with the county; and
(2) through which the county, to the extent practicable, may apply to the subdivision more current street, road, drainage, and other infrastructure requirements.
(c) A regulation or standard adopted by a county under this section must be no less stringent than the minimum standards and other requirements under the model rules for safe and sanitary water supply and sewer services adopted under Section 16.343, Water Code, and any other minimum public safety standards that would otherwise be applicable to the subdivision.
(d) a regulation or standard adopted by a county under this section applies only to a lot that is owned by an individual, firm, corporation, or other legal entity that directly or indirectly offers lots for sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan in the ordinary course of business, and each regulation or standard must expressly state that limitation. For the purposes of this subsection, "common promotional plan" means a plan or scheme of operation undertaken by a person or a group acting in concert, either personally or through an agent, to offer for sale or lease more than two lots when the land is:
(1) contiguous or part of the same area of land; or
(2) known, designated, or advertised as a common unit or by a common name.
(b) The county may not apply an order adopted under Section 232.045, Local Government Code, as added by this Act, to a subdivision that is the subject of a judicial proceeding pending on May 1, 2015, to determine whether the subdivision is subject to a valid and existing subdivision plat.