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SB1927 • 2025

Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Hinojosa, Adam
Last action
2025-05-26
Official status
05/26/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  2. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  3. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  4. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  5. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  6. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  7. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  8. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  9. 2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Land & Resource Management

  10. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  11. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  12. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  13. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  14. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  15. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  16. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  17. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  18. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  19. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  20. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  21. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  22. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  23. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  24. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  25. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  26. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  27. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  28. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  29. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  30. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  31. 2025-03-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  32. 2025-03-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Local Government

  33. 2025-03-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  34. 2025-03-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 1927 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Hinojosa of Nueces, et al.

S.B. No. 1927

(Troxclair, Tepper, Harris, Virdell, Morales of Maverick,

et al.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper

tree.

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

SECTION 1. Section 212.905, Local Government Code, is

amended by amending Subsection (h) and adding Subsection (h-1) to

read as follows:

(h) A municipality may not prohibit the removal of or impose

a tree mitigation fee for the removal of [
a tree that
]:

(1)
a tree that
is diseased or dead; [
or
]

(2)
a tree that
poses an imminent or immediate threat

to persons or property
; or

(3)

except as provided by Subsection (h-1), an Ashe

juniper tree located on a residential property
.

(h-1) Subsection (h)(3) does not apply to an area located:

(1)

within 15 miles of the boundary of a military base,

as defined by Section 43.0117, at which an active training program

is conducted; and

(2)

in a county with a population of more than two

million.

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