BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

S.B. 1264

By: Eltife

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Committee Report (Unamended)

 

 

 

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

 

Interested parties contend that current building construction codes allow an industrialized home or building to be built up to four stories but that state law limits the maximum number of stories for such structures to three stories.  S.B. 1264 seeks to remedy this inconsistency.

 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

 

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

 

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

 

S.B. 1264 amends the Occupations Code to increase from three stories or 49 feet in height to four stories or 60 feet in height the maximum height of a residential structure and of a commercial structure above which height such residential and commercial structures no longer meet the height restrictions in the definitions of industrialized housing and of an industrialized building, respectively.

 

EFFECTIVE DATE

 

September 1, 2015.