TX HB24

Defines "proposed comprehensive zoning change" as municipal proposals to change zoning regulations allowing more residential development uniformly across districts, adopt new citywide zoning codes/maps, or create overlay districts along major roadways/transit corridors that increase residential development

Requires municipalities to publish public hearing notices both in newspapers and on their official website at least 15 days before hearings on zoning changes

Raises the protest threshold for zoning changes that increase residential development: requires signatures from owners of 60% of adjacent land area (within 200 feet) to trigger a protest, compared to 20% for other zoning changes

When a valid protest is filed, zoning changes increasing residential development require only a simple majority vote to pass, while other protested changes still require a three-fourths supermajority of the governing body

Creates a 60-day deadline to file legal challenges to zoning changes that allow more residential development; after this period, the change is conclusively presumed valid

Mandates home-rule municipalities post notice signs (at least 24" x 48") on affected properties or public rights-of-way at least 10 days before zoning commission hearings on non-citywide zoning classification changes

Takes effect September 1, 2025