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TX SB2793

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/14/2025

Primary Sponsor

Angela Paxton

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Origin

Senate

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to develop and implement a program allowing property owners adjacent to state highway rights-of-way to plant or replace vegetation for aesthetic enhancement or to improve property visibility

  • Limits the program to vegetation work within 500 feet of the participating property owner's land, including outer separation areas of the right-of-way

  • Property owners must bear all costs of planting or replacement, use only vegetation adapted to local conditions, and avoid interfering with public utility infrastructure

  • Preserves the state's right to use the right-of-way for road construction or reconstruction and clarifies that property owner participation does not constitute abandonment of the right-of-way

  • Exempts utilities performing work in the right-of-way from any obligation to replace vegetation or compensate property owners when vegetation removal is necessary for utility work

Legislative Description

Relating to the operation of a program by the Texas Department of Transportation to allow a real property owner to plant or replace vegetation in a right-of-way.

Property Interests

Last Action

Referred to Transportation

4/3/2025

Committee Referrals

Transportation4/3/2025

Full Bill Text

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