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2025 · Regular session · Senate bill

SB2367

SB2367 extends a county park-rule enforcement provision to counties with fewer than 75,000 residents that border three counties each having more than 450,000 residents.

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Official caption: Relating to the authority of certain counties to enact certain park use rules.

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Official report lists Senate author(s): Kolkhorst. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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SB2367 extends a county park-rule enforcement provision to counties with fewer than 75,000 residents that border three counties each having more than 450,000 residents.

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What does it do?

SB2367 extends a county park-rule enforcement provision to counties with fewer than 75,000 residents that border three counties each having more than 450,000 residents. The newly covered park boards cannot use this provision to regulate fireworks. The bill became law without the governor’s signature on June 20, 2025, and took effect September 1, 2025. Final law; Official history.

What changed along the way?

A qualifying county’s board of park commissioners may adopt reasonable rules for parks it administers, subject to commissioners-court approval. The existing section makes a violator of an approved rule liable to the county for a civil penalty of up to $100 per violation. The county may sue in district or county court to collect it, and collections go to the general fund. SB2367 extends that framework; it does not create a new statewide criminal offense or raise the $100 ceiling. Final law; Prior park-rule and penalty law; Board definition.

The new population-and-adjacency category is added to three existing categories; those are not removed. The new category is also added to the section’s prohibition on park-board rules relating to fireworks. That restriction on this particular authority is not a declaration that fireworks are lawful everywhere under other laws. Final law, section 1.

County park boards already had a general power to adopt reasonable park-use rules with commissioners-court approval. The significant addition here is access to the specified civil-penalty framework for the new county category, with the fireworks exclusion. Existing general rule authority; Prior park-rule and penalty law; Final law.

Changes during passage: The introduced, Senate committee, Senate-passed, House committee and final versions have the same operative text. The official amendment index lists no amendments. Introduced; Senate committee; Senate-passed; House committee; Final law; Version index; Amendment index.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

A newly qualifying county gains a specified civil enforcement option, and park users can face the existing per-violation penalty if local rules are adopted and approved. The act does not itself enact a local park rule or establish how much will be collected. The April 24 fiscal note anticipates no state fiscal impact and no significant local-government fiscal impact; that is not a finding that a penalty is insignificant to an individual. Final law; Prior park-rule and penalty law; Official fiscal note.

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