HB3063 • 2025

Relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Perez, Mary Ann
Last action: 2025-05-20
Official status: 05/20/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine.

What This Bill Does

Relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine.

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Bill History

2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Local Government
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the House
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#2858
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#2746
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs
2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine.

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89(R) HB 3063 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

89R1736 CXP-F

By: Perez of Harris

H.B. No. 3063

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain

municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 601.001, Local Government Code, is

amended to read as follows:

Sec. 601.001. PARKING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
(a)
A

municipality by ordinance may regulate the parking of motor

vehicles on private property and may enforce the ordinance in the

same manner that it enforces ordinances regulating parking in

public no-parking zones, including the impoundment of offending

vehicles.

(b)

As provided by Chapter 682, Transportation Code, a

municipality with a population of 1.9 million or more may:

(1)

declare the violation of a municipal ordinance

relating to the parking of an unattended motor vehicle in the front

or side yard of a single-family residence in a residential area to

be a civil offense; and

(2)

by ordinance establish an administrative

adjudication hearing procedure under which a civil fine may be

imposed.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.