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HB3556 • 2025

Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.

Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Vasut | Metcalf | Leo Wilson
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.

Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  5. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  6. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  7. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate adopts resolution to go outside bounds. SR 687

  8. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate adopts conference committee report

  9. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  10. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    House adopts resolution to go outside bounds. HR 1491

  11. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    House adopts conference committee report

  12. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#4124

  13. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  14. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  15. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    House adopts conf. comm. report-reported

  16. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Conference committee report filed

  17. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Conf. Comm. Report distributed

  18. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order withdrawn. Rule 11, Section 2

  19. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order withdrawn. Rule 11, Section 2

  20. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House refuses to concur in Senate amendments

  21. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House requests conference committee

  22. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House appoints conferees

  23. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate grants request for conference comm.

  24. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate appoints conferees

  25. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House refuses to concur-reported

  26. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House requests conference committee-reported

  27. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    House appoints conferees-reported

  28. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate grants request for conf comm-reported

  29. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate appoints conferees-reported

  30. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments distributed

  31. 2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  32. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  33. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  34. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  35. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  36. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  37. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage as amended reported

  38. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  39. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  40. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  41. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  42. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment(s) offered. FA1 Middleton

  43. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended

  44. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  45. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

  46. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  47. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  48. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  49. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  50. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  51. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  52. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  53. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  54. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  55. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  56. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  57. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Natural Resources

  58. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  59. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  60. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Postponed. 5/7/25 2:00 PM

  61. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out as postponed business

  62. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  63. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1644

  64. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  65. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  66. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  67. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order withdrawn. Rule 11, Section 2

  68. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 1-Villalobos

  69. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 2-Darby

  70. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1525

  71. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  72. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment as amended

  73. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1526

  74. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  75. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  76. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  77. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  78. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  79. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  80. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  81. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  82. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  83. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  84. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  85. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Point of order sustained. Rule 8, Section 1(a)(1)

  86. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Returned to committee

  87. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  88. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  89. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  90. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  91. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  92. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  93. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  94. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  95. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  96. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  97. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  98. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  99. 2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism

  100. 2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 3556 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 3556

AN ACT

relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain

height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and

in adjacent counties.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Parks and Wildlife

Code, is amended by adding Section 12.023 to read as follows:

Sec.

12.023.

NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN STRUCTURES.

(a)

This section applies only in a county with a population of less

than 500,000 that:

(1)

borders the Gulf of Mexico and in which a national

wildlife refuge is wholly or partly located; or

(2)

does not contain a municipality with a population

greater than 300,000 and is adjacent to a county described by

Subdivision (1).

(b)

Not later than the 90th day before the date a person

begins construction of a structure taller than 575 feet, the person

shall submit to the department a request for the department to

review the project under Section 12.0011(b)(3).

(c)

Not later than the 45th day after the date the

department receives a request under Subsection (b), the department

shall recommend in writing measures to minimize the impact of the

structure on migratory birds.

(d)

If the department does not provide recommendations

under Subsection (c) to the person who requested review within the

period required by that subsection, the construction of the project

may proceed without further delay or modification.

(e)

Not later than the 45th day after the date the person who

requested review receives the recommendations under Subsection

(c), the person shall provide a written response to the department

accepting the recommendations or providing alternative

minimization measures in place of department recommendations.

(f)

If the department does not agree to the alternative

minimization measures received under Subsection (e), the

department shall reach a final decision on the minimization

measures the structure must utilize not later than the 45th day

after the date the department received the alternative minimization

measures.

If the department requires compliance with minimization

measures other than those agreed to by the person who requested

review, the person is entitled to an administrative hearing before

the State Office of Administrative Hearings.

(g)

The commission may adopt rules to implement this

section.

(h)

Information submitted to the department under this

section is not subject to Chapter 552, Government Code.

SECTION 2. Section 12.023, Parks and Wildlife Code, as

added by this Act, applies only to a person who begins construction

of a structure on or after the 90th day after the effective date of

this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3556 was passed by the House on May 7,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 96, Nays 49, 1 present, not

voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to

H.B. No. 3556 on May 29, 2025, and requested the appointment of a

conference committee to consider the differences between the two

houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report

on H.B. No. 3556 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 99,

Nays 12, 2 present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3556 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 26, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 22, Nays

9; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference

committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and

that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.

3556 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 22, Nays 9.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

__________________

Governor