By: Hinojosa of Nueces	S.B. No. 1927
	(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2025; March 17, 2025, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
	April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 2; April 14, 2025,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1927	By:  Nichols

	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.
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