House Bill 2127 or the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act bans local municipalities from adopting or enforcing ordinances and rules that go further than what’s...
Ridley said city officials have been talking with other cities about the new law, and he assumes taking legal action is among the options being considered to try and block it from taking effect. Houston officials launched the first legal challenge of the law by“I think we need to take some kind of action about this act,” said Ridley, who declined to say whether he supported Dallas being involved in suing the state.
But the new law has also drawn concerns from officials in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and other cities who argue it could be unconstitutional, say it isn’t clear enough on what specific local ordinances will now be preempted, and fear it will erase a variety of local rules meant to protect consumers, keep workers safe, conserve natural resources and other self-governing policies.
“I think this is a direct attack on local democracy,” said Ana Gonzalez, deputy director of politics and policy at the Texas AFL-CIO. “City councils and county commissioner courts, those are the governments that are closest to the people and basically, the state is coming in and completely eliminating that.”She said one of the local rules in danger is an ordinance in Dallas passed in 2015 that. Austin has a similar safeguard that has been in place since 2010.
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