Bill Text: TX SB1120 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a residential tenant's lease obligation after the loss of the leased premises resulting from a natural disaster.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 1/1/14 [SB1120 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1120-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1120 | ||
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| relating to a residential tenant's lease obligation after the loss | ||
| of the leased premises resulting from a natural disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 92, Property Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 92.062 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 92.062. LEASE TERM AFTER NATURAL DISASTER. If a rental | ||
| premises is, as a practical matter, totally unusable for | ||
| residential purposes as a result of a natural disaster such as a | ||
| hurricane, tornado, flood, extended freeze, or widespread | ||
| windstorm, a landlord that allows a tenant to move to another rental | ||
| unit owned by the landlord may not require the tenant to execute a | ||
| lease for a term longer than the term remaining on the tenant's | ||
| lease on the date the premises was rendered unusable as a result of | ||
| the natural disaster. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 92.062, Property Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a lease that is executed or renewed on or after | ||
| January 1, 2014. A lease that is executed or renewed before January | ||
| 1, 2014, is governed by the law in effect at the time the lease was | ||
| executed or renewed, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2014. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1120 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 10, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1120 passed the House on | ||
| May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 73, Nays 66, three | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
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| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
