Bill Text: TX SB1244 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to property owners' association elections and votes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1244 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1244-Introduced.html
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By: Burton | S.B. No. 1244 |
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relating to property owners' association elections and votes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 209.0041(h), Property Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(h) Except as provided by this subsection, a declaration may | ||
be amended only by a vote of 60 [ |
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by members of [ |
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owners' association, in addition to any governmental approval | ||
required by law. If the declaration contains a lower threshold | ||
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controls. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 209.0056(a), Property Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Not later than the 30th [ |
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60th day before the date of an election or vote, a property owners' | ||
association shall give written notice of the election or vote to: | ||
(1) each owner of property in the property owners' | ||
association, for purposes of an association-wide election or vote; | ||
or | ||
(2) each owner of property in the property owners' | ||
association entitled under the dedicatory instruments to vote in a | ||
particular representative election, for purposes of a vote that | ||
involves election of representatives of the association who are | ||
vested under the dedicatory instruments of the property owners' | ||
association with the authority to elect or appoint board members of | ||
the property owners' association. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an election or vote held on or after November 1, 2015. An | ||
election or vote held before November 1, 2015, is governed by the | ||
law applicable to the election or vote immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |