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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas requires certain campgrounds, hotels, and RV parks in flood-prone areas to maintain NOAA weather alert radios
Last action · August 15, 2025: FiledSponsor: Wes Virdell
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What This Bill Proposed
Campgrounds, hotels, and recreational vehicle parks located within s or near rivers and creeks must maintain working s in all sleeping rooms and common areas, and provide specialized strobe-light radios upon request for hearing-impaired guests.
Operators of lodging businesses in designated high-risk flood zones must acquire and maintain specialized emergency notification equipment for guests and staff, incurring direct compliance and equipment costs.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Campground, hotel, and recreational vehicle park operators
Operators must purchase, install, and maintain NOAA weather alert radios in all sleeping rooms and common areas, and supply strobe-light radios upon request.
Guests at affected lodging facilities
Guests receive audible and visual emergency weather warnings in their rooms and common areas.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which businesses are required to have weather radios under this bill?
Where must the weather radios be placed on the property?
Are there special requirements for guests who are hearing-impaired?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Aug 15, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
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