HB 1823

AN ACT relating to the operation of a concrete crushing facility near a

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89th Regular Session

Jan 14, 2025 - Jun 2, 2025 • Session ended

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What This Bill Does

Restricts the operation of concrete crushing facilities near residential, educational, religious, or healthcare buildings by establishing a 440-yard minimum distance requirement. Facilities cannot operate within this buffer zone unless they were already authorized before the bill's effective date, meet specific location criteria (such as being near an international border in a small municipality), or are located in an enclosed facility manufacturing recycled products. The law applies to new permit applications filed on or after September 1, 2025, potentially impacting construction and recycling businesses in certain Texas areas.

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Bill Text

relating to the operation of a concrete crushing facility near a
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.  Sections 382.065(a) and (b), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a)  The commission by rule shall prohibit the operation of a
concrete crushing facility within 440 yards of a building in use as
a single or multifamily residence, school, hospital, or place of
worship at the time the application for a permit to operate the
facility at a site near the residence, school, hospital, or place of
worship is filed with the commission.  The measurement of distance
for purposes of this subsection shall be taken from the point on the
concrete crushing facility that is nearest to the residence,
school, hospital, or place of worship toward the point on the
residence, school, hospital, or place of worship that is nearest
the concrete crushing facility.
(b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a concrete crushing
(1)  at a location for which commission authorization
for the operation of a concrete crushing facility was in effect on
(2)  at a location that satisfies the distance
requirements of Subsection (a) at the time the application for the
initial authorization for the operation of that facility at that
location is filed with the commission, provided that the
authorization is granted and maintained, regardless of whether a
single or multifamily residence, school, hospital, or place of
worship is subsequently built or put to use within 440 yards of the
(i)  in the manufacture of products that
contain recycled materials; and
(ii)  that is located in an enclosed
(i)  within 25 miles of an international
(ii)  in a municipality with a population of
not less than 6,100 but not more than 20,000.
SECTION 2.  Section 382.065, Health and Safety Code, as
amended by this Act, applies only to an application for a permit or
authorization to use a permit to operate a concrete crushing
facility that is filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An application for a permit or authorization to use a permit filed
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect on the date of filing, and that law is continued in effect
SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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Bill filed: AN ACT relating to the operation of a concrete crushing facility near a