By: Lopez of Cameron, Bumgarner, Longoria, H.B. No. 2192
      Guillen, Lopez of Bexar, et al.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to permit requirements for the sale of fireworks.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2154.202, Occupations Code, is amended
  by amending Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows:
         (g)  [Except as provided by Subsection (h),] A [a] retail
  fireworks permit holder may sell fireworks only to the public, and
  only during periods:
               (1)  beginning June 24 and ending at midnight on July 4;
               (2)  beginning December 20 and ending at midnight on
  January 1 of the following year; [and]
               (3)  beginning May 1 and ending at midnight on May 5 [if
  the fireworks are sold at a location that is not more than 100 miles
  from the Texas-Mexico border and that is in a county in which the
  commissioners court of the county has approved the sale of
  fireworks during the period.;
         [(h)  In addition to the periods during which the sale of
  fireworks is authorized under Subsection (g), the commissioners
  court of a county by order may allow a retail fireworks permit
  holder to sell fireworks in that county only to the public and only
  during one or more of the following periods:]
               (4)  [(1)] beginning February 25 and ending at midnight
  on March 2;
               (5)  [(2)] beginning April 16 and ending at midnight on
  April 21;
               (6)  [(3)] beginning the Wednesday before the last
  Monday in May and ending at midnight on the last Monday in May; and
               (7)  [(4)] beginning five days before the first day of
  Diwali and ending at midnight on the last day of Diwali.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.