Texas Governor Greg Abbott officially signed H.B. 2439 into law on June 14, 2019. This legislation, which received overwhelming bipartisan support in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate, prohibits local governments in Texas from mandating the use of only specific products, and it will allow the use of products and materials permitted in current national building codes. The law now goes into effect on September 1, 2019.
For the better part of a decade, EIMA had been working on a case-by-case basis on EIFS prohibitions and restrictions in Texas as they came to the association’s attention. On multiple occasions, EIMA offered to its local allies educational services, tools and advice on how to combat ordinances, and gathered information on efforts by other competing interest which favored a limiting the number of building materials and products.