By: Troxclair, Bailes, Burns, Thimesch, H.B. No. 2239
      Patterson, et al.
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper
  tree.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 212.905(h), Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (h)  A municipality may not prohibit the removal of or impose
  a tree mitigation fee for the removal of [a tree that]:
               (1)  a tree that is diseased or dead; [or]
               (2)  a tree that poses an imminent or immediate threat
  to persons or property; or
               (3)  an Ashe juniper tree located on a residential
  property.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.