Vasut Bill Exempts Build-To-Rent Communities From County Platting Rules

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By: Vasut
H.B. No. 2232

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the regulation by counties of build to rent communities

and the regulation by certain counties of manufactured home rental

communities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 232.007, Local Government Code, is

amended by adding Subsection (c-1) and amending Subsection (e) to

read as follows:

(c-1) This subsection applies only to a county that has a

population of more than 370,000, borders the Gulf of Mexico, and is

adjacent to a county with a population of more than 3.3 million.

Notwithstanding Subsection (d) and after complying with the

procedures described by Subsection (c), the commissioners court of

a county may establish additional minimum infrastructure standards

for manufactured home rental communities located in the

unincorporated area of the county. The standards established under

this subsection may include only:

(1) reasonable lot or space size requirements;

(2) reasonable road width requirements based on the

lot or space density of the manufactured home rental community; and

(3) reasonable ingress and egress access based on the

lot or space density of the manufactured home rental community.

(e) If the commissioners court adopts minimum

infrastructure standards for manufactured home rental communities,

the owner of land located outside the limits of a municipality who

intends to use the land for a manufactured home rental community

must have an infrastructure development plan prepared that complies

with the minimum infrastructure standards adopted by the

commissioners court under this section [ Subsection (c) ].

SECTION 2. Chapter 232, Local Government Code, is amended

by adding Section 232.0075 to read as follows:

Sec. 232.0075. BUILD TO RENT COMMUNITIES. (a) In this

section:

(1) "Build to rent community" means a plot or tract of

land that is separated into two or more spaces that contain a single

family dwelling and are rented, leased, or offered for rent or

lease, without a purchase option, for use and occupancy as

residences.

(2) "Single family dwelling" means having the

character of a detached one- or two-family dwelling with separate

means or egress, including the accessory structures of the

dwelling.

(b) A build to rent community is not a subdivision for

purposes of this chapter.

(c) Sections 232.001-232.006 do not apply to a build to rent

community.

(d) After a public hearing and after notice is published in

a newspaper of general circulation in the county, the commissioners

court of a county, by order adopted and entered in the minutes of

the commissioners court, may establish minimum infrastructure

standards for a build to rent community located in the

unincorporated area of a county. The minimum standards may include

only those standards allowed under Section 232.007.

SECTION 3. The change in law made by Section 1 of this Act

applies only to a manufactured home rental community for which

construction begins on or after the date minimum infrastructure

standards adopted by the commissioners court as provided by Section

232.007(c-1), Local Government Code, as added by this Act, take

effect.

SECTION 4. The change in law made by Section 2 of this Act

applies only to a build to rent community for which construction

begins on or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.