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TX SB2793
Bill
Status
3/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Angela Paxton
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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Property owners must bear all costs of planting or replacement, use only vegetation adapted to local conditions, and avoid interfering with public utility infrastructure
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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
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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