TX SB1509

Prohibits municipalities from adopting or enforcing ordinances, rules, or other measures that regulate their extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), while still allowing municipalities to provide services to ETJ residents by mutual agreement

Removes municipal platting and subdivision authority over land in the ETJ, limiting such requirements to property within municipal corporate boundaries only

Eliminates municipal authority to regulate signs, building permits, firearm discharge, and other activities in the ETJ, restricting these powers to within city limits

Removes references to ETJ throughout numerous Local Government Code provisions affecting public improvement districts, impact fees, drainage utilities, development districts, and economic development programs

Repeals Chapter 242 of the Local Government Code (governing municipal-county agreements for ETJ regulation) and multiple other provisions that granted municipalities regulatory authority in their ETJ, effective September 1, 2025