CSHB 3167 Testimony before the House Committee on Land and Resource Management

April 2, 2019

Shelby Sterling, J.D.

Shelby is a born-and-raised Texan from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She attended the University of Oklahoma where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Letters: Constitutional Emphasis, which is a combination study of philosophy, history, and literature on the U.S. Constitution and the Founding Fathers.

After graduation, Shelby followed her passion for law and returned to Texas to pursue her J.D. at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth.

CSHB 3167 seeks to expedite the permitting process so that there is greater predictability for developers and lower costs for consumers. This bill would streamline the development and permitting process by requiring jurisdictions to conduct more thorough initial reviews followed by substantive comments on an application that the developer can then address. After the developer addresses the initial round of substantive comments, the jurisdiction will only be permitted to re-review the amendments, without any availability to review any other parts of the application that were not initially deemed deficient.

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