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relating to the effect of the model subdivision rules on an
exception to county platting requirements applicable to the
extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality.
Model subdivision rules don’t override platting exceptions just outside city limits.
The bill adds one sentence to county platting law saying the state's model subdivision rules under the Water Code do not override exceptions to county platting requirements that apply in a city's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It touches landowners and developers dividing land just outside city limits, plus the counties that review plats there. On the ground, a land division that qualifies for a platting exception in that zone keeps the exception even where the model subdivision rules would otherwise apply.
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Labels: GOT HALFWAY. Passed the Senate on May 6, 2025. Died in the House: voted out of the Land & Resource Management committee 6-0, no floor vote.
relating to the effect of the model subdivision rules on an
exception to county platting requirements applicable to the
extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality.
WHAT IT DOES
Model subdivision rules don’t override platting exceptions just outside city limits.
The bill adds one sentence to county platting law saying the state's model subdivision rules under the Water Code do not override exceptions to county platting requirements that apply in a city's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It touches landowners and developers dividing land just outside city limits, plus the counties that review plats there. On the ground, a land division that qualifies for a platting exception in that zone keeps the exception even where the model subdivision rules would otherwise apply.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator A. Hinojosa moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 1708 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator A. Hinojosa moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 1708 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
House committee · Land & Resource Management · Committee vote 6 aye, 0 nay, 3 absent · Out of committee
Senate committee · Local Government · Committee vote 6 aye, 0 nay, 1 absent · Out of committee
Subjects
City Government--Land Use & Zoning
Property Interests--Real Property
PLATTING
Text
The text as introduced · 199 words
89R15699 SCL-F
By: Hinojosa of Nueces
S.B. No. 1708
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the effect of the model subdivision rules on an
exception to county platting requirements applicable to the
extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 232.0013, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 232.0013. CHAPTER-WIDE PROVISION RELATING TO
REGULATION OF PLATS AND SUBDIVISIONS IN EXTRATERRITORIAL
JURISDICTION. (a) The authority of a county under this chapter
relating to the regulation of plats or subdivisions in the
extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality is subject to any
applicable limitation prescribed by an agreement under Section
242.001 or by Section 242.002.
(b) The model subdivision rules adopted under Section
16.343, Water Code, do not supersede an exception to platting
requirements under this chapter applicable to the extraterritorial
jurisdiction of a municipality.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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