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TX HB5199
Bill
Status
3/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Erin Zwiener
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AI Summary
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Authorizes municipalities to impose impact fees for roadway facilities and safety improvements in their extraterritorial jurisdiction, but only for new developments or new municipal utility districts, with fees proportional to the development's impact on the municipality
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Grants counties authority to impose impact fees for roadway facilities or safety improvements in unincorporated areas to accommodate new developments or new municipal utility districts
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Allows municipalities and counties to require traffic analyses as part of plat applications when the analysis is for the purpose of imposing impact fees under Chapter 395
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Permits impact fee funds to be used for safety improvements to roadway facilities, and exempts roadway facility impact fees from the prohibition on using fees for repair, operation, or maintenance of existing improvements
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Applies only to impact fees imposed on or after the effective date of September 1, 2025; fees imposed before that date remain governed by prior law
Legislative Description
Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to enact and impose an impact fee for a roadway facility or a safety improvement to a roadway facility.
Fees & Other Nontax Revenue
Last Action
Referred to Land & Resource Management
4/7/2025