Bill Text: TX HB1262 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of written notice to vacate real property by electronic means.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB1262 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1262-Introduced.html
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By: Vasut | H.B. No. 1262 |
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relating to the provision of written notice to vacate real property | ||
by electronic means. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 24.005, Property Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (f) and adding Subsections (f-3) and (f-4) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(f) Except as provided by Subsections [ |
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and (f-3), the notice to vacate shall be given in person or by mail | ||
at the premises in question. Notice in person may be by personal | ||
delivery to the tenant or any person residing at the premises who is | ||
16 years of age or older or personal delivery to the premises and | ||
affixing the notice to the inside of the main entry door. Notice by | ||
mail may be by regular mail, by registered mail, or by certified | ||
mail, return receipt requested, to the premises in question. | ||
(f-3) Notwithstanding Subsections (f) and (f-1), a landlord | ||
may give written notice to vacate to a tenant by sending the notice | ||
by at least two electronic means, including e-mail, text message, | ||
fax, and social media message, if: | ||
(1) both parties agree, in a conspicuous writing | ||
separate from any written lease, that the notice may be given by | ||
sending the notice by at least two electronic means; and | ||
(2) the tenant provides in the writing described by | ||
Subdivision (1) the information required for the landlord to send | ||
the notice by at least two electronic means. | ||
(f-4) Notice to vacate given under Subsection (f-3) is | ||
considered delivered on the date notice is sent by at least two | ||
electronic means for which information was provided by the tenant, | ||
regardless of the date the notice is received. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |