Bill Text: TX HB738 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of the rental or leasing of housing accommodations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-26 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB738-Introduced.html
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| By: Larson | H.B. No. 738 | |
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| relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of the rental | ||
| or leasing of housing accommodations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 250.007 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 250.007. REGULATION OF RENTAL OR LEASING OF HOUSING | ||
| ACCOMMODATIONS. A municipality or county may not adopt or enforce | ||
| an ordinance or regulation that prohibits an owner, lessee, | ||
| sublessee, assignee, managing agent, or other person having the | ||
| right to lease, sublease, or rent a housing accommodation from | ||
| refusing to lease or rent the housing accommodation to a person | ||
| because of the person's lawful source of income to pay rent, | ||
| including a federal housing choice voucher. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
