HB 2086.E2 - DIGEST
(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/11/16)

Prohibits a county, city, town, or code city, under certain circumstances, from limiting a religious organization's: (1) Availability to host a rotating, established tent encampment to fewer than eight months during a calendar year;

(2) Hosting term to fewer than four months;

(3) Number of simultaneous hostings within the same municipality to one hosting during any given period of time; and

(4) Availability to host safe parking efforts at its on-site parking lot.

Requires a county, city, town, or code city to enact an ordinance or regulation or take other action that requires a hosting religious organization and the managing agency, when the managing agency is not the hosting religious organization, to enter into a written agreement to protect the public health and safety of both the residents of the tent encampments and the residents of the county, city, town, or code city.