H.B. No. 3813

	AN ACT
	relating to municipal fire suppression standards in certain
	municipalities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 342, Local Government Code, is amended
	by adding Subchapter Z to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
	Sec. 342.901.  FIRE SUPPRESSION STANDARDS IN CERTAIN
	MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies to a general law
	municipality that:
	(1)  has a population of less than 4,000;
	(2)  is located in a county that:
	(A)  has a population of more than one
	million; and
	(B)  is adjacent to a county with a population of
	more than 420,000; and
	(3)  is served by a district governed by Chapter 51,
	Water Code.
	(b)  Notwithstanding any other law, the governing body of a
	municipality may by ordinance establish water flow and water
	pressure standards sufficient to provide adequate pressure to fire
	suppression systems and require a district described by Subsection
	(a)(3) that provides water service in the municipality to take
	reasonable measures to comply with those standards.
	(c)  Before a municipality adopts an ordinance under this
	section, the municipality and the district described by Subsection
	(a)(3) that is subject to the proposed ordinance shall establish
	the scope of and estimate the costs associated with any capital
	improvements necessary to comply with the proposed ordinance.
	(d)  A district described by Subsection (a)(3) may recover
	the costs associated with complying with an ordinance adopted under
	this section through a surcharge assessed only to customers served
	in the municipality to the extent that:
	(1)  complying with the ordinance results in additional
	capital improvement costs for the district; and
	(2)  the ordinance establishes water flow and water
	pressure standards inside municipal boundaries that are more
	stringent
	than water flow and water pressure standards required
	outside municipal boundaries.
	(e)  To the extent of a conflict between this section and any
	other law, this section controls.
	SECTION 2.  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, 2013.
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	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 3813 was passed by the House on May 2,
	2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 2, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 3813 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 1,
	2 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 3813 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 20, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor