Bill Text: TX HB1344 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting an increase in the rent of a tenant residing in a development supported with a low income housing tax credit allocation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB1344 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1344-Introduced.html
| 88R935 JG-D | ||
| By: Rosenthal | H.B. No. 1344 | |
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| relating to prohibiting an increase in the rent of a tenant residing | ||
| in a development supported with a low income housing tax credit | ||
| allocation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2306.6738(a), Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a development owner of a | ||
| development supported with a housing tax credit allocation may not: | ||
| (1) lock out or threaten to lock out any person | ||
| residing in the development except by judicial process unless the | ||
| exclusion results from: | ||
| (A) a necessity to perform bona fide repairs or | ||
| construction work; or | ||
| (B) an emergency; [ |
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| (2) seize or threaten to seize the personal property | ||
| of any person residing in the development except by judicial | ||
| process unless the resident has abandoned the premises; or | ||
| (3) except as provided under the terms of a voucher | ||
| program under Section 8, United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 | ||
| U.S.C. Section 1437f), or a similar rental subsidy program, | ||
| increase the rent paid by a person residing in the development | ||
| during the duration of the person's lease agreement. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2306.6738, Government Code, as amended | ||
| by this Act, applies to a lease agreement entered into or renewed on | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
