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HB4897 • 2025

Relating to the time period for municipal approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a plat.

Relating to the time period for municipal approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a plat.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Muñoz | Virdell
Last action
2025-05-15
Official status
05/15/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to the time period for municipal approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a plat.

Relating to the time period for municipal approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a plat.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the time period for municipal approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a plat.

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. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  2. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  3. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  4. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  5. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  6. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  7. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  8. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  9. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  10. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  11. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  12. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  13. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  14. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  15. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Land & Resource Management

  16. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the time period for municipal approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of a plat.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 4897 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R19375 JBD-F

By: Muñoz, Virdell

H.B. No. 4897

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4897:

By: Gates

C.S.H.B. No. 4897

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the time period for municipal approval, conditional

approval, or disapproval of a plat.

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

SECTION 1. Section 212.009, Local Government Code, is

amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:

(a-1)

For the purpose of Subsection (a), a plat application

is considered filed on the day the applicant pays the first required

fee applicable to the application to the municipal authority

responsible for approving the plat.

SECTION 2. Section 212.009, Local Government Code, as

amended by this Act, applies only to a plat application filed on or

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.