By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1029
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read first time and referred to
Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; April 1, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 1, 1993, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE VOTE
Yea Nay PNV Absent
Armbrister x
Leedom x
Carriker x
Henderson x
Madla x
Moncrief x
Patterson x
Rosson x
Shapiro x
Wentworth x
Whitmire x
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1029
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
By: Armbrister relating to the review and approval of certain permits by the state, a municipality, and other local governmental entities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (3), Subsection (a), Section 481.142, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
(3) "Project" means an endeavor over which a regulatory agency exerts its jurisdiction and for which a permit is required before initiation of the endeavor. Preliminary plans and related subdivision plats, site plans and site development permits connected to such preliminary plan or subdivision plats are considered collectively to be one project, provided that each site plan is submitted to the regulatory agency within three years after the final plat of the subdivision for such site plan is approved. All property that is under common ownership or control and that is subject to one or more applications for subdivision shall be considered to be one project.
SECTION 2. Subdivision (4), Subsection (a), Section 481.142, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
(4) "Regulatory agency" means a political subdivision and the governing bodies or any boards or commissions thereof, an agency, bureau, department, division, or commission of the state or any department or other agency of a political subdivision that processes and issues permits.
SECTION 3. Section 481.143, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 481.143. UNIFORMITY OF REQUIREMENTS. (a) The approval, disapproval, or conditional approval of an application for a permit shall be considered by each regulatory agency solely on the basis of any orders, regulations, ordinances, or other duly adopted requirements in effect at the time the original application for the permit is filed. If a series of permits is required for a project and if the project is initiated within two years after the last required permit is approved, the orders, regulations, ordinances, or other requirements in effect at the time the original application for the first permit in that series is filed shall be the sole basis for consideration of all subsequent permits required for the completion of the project and all permits required for the project shall be considered to be a single series of permits. The project will be considered to have been initiated if plans are prepared and the ground is broken for the first phase of the project. The project and subsequent phases must be in a continuous process of completion and be completed as soon as reasonably possible consistent with generally accepted local standards and practices, provided that the project shall be considered to be in a continuous process of completion during any period in which completion or initiation is interrupted for any reason or circumstance beyond the control of the persons to whom the permit has been issued as a result of an action taken by a regulatory agency or other governmental entity or agency thereof.
(b) This subchapter applies to all projects in progress on or commenced after the effective date of this section as originally enacted, and the duly adopted requirements in effect at the time the original application for the first permit for the project was filed control.
(c) This section does not apply to:
(1) permits or licenses issued in connection with any form of gaming or gambling;
(2) permits or licenses issued under Title 2, Tax Code; [or]
(3) permits or orders issued under programs for which a state regulatory agency has received authorization, delegation, or approval from the federal government to implement an equivalent state program in lieu of or as part of the federal program; or
(4) permits for the construction of buildings or structures intended for human occupancy or habitation that are issued pursuant to laws, ordinances, procedures, rules, and regulations adopting solely the provisions of uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical codes promulgated by the International Conference of Building Officials, the
International Fire Code Institute, or the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical
Officials unless such permits are less than two years old.
SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
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Hon. Bob Bullock
Austin, Texas
April 1, 1993
President of the Senate
Sir:

We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was referred S.B. No. 1029, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
Armbrister, Chairman
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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Name: Mary M. Arnold x Representing: Save our Springs Coalition
City: Austin
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Name: James F. Haley x Representing: Texas Water Commission
City: Austin
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City: Austin
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City: Austin
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