Bill Text: TX SB986 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a local government to regulate evictions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-25 - Referred to Business & Industry [SB986 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB986-Engrossed.html
| By: Creighton, et al. | S.B. No. 986 | |
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| relating to the authority of a local government to regulate | ||
| evictions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 24, Property Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 24.0041 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 24.0041. AUTHORITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO REGULATE | ||
| EVICTIONS. Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality or county | ||
| may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, order, or other measure that: | ||
| (1) prohibits, restricts, or delays: | ||
| (A) delivery of a notice to vacate; or | ||
| (B) filing of a suit to recover possession of the | ||
| premises under this chapter; or | ||
| (2) otherwise relates to an eviction suit under this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 24.005(e), Property Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (e) If the lease or applicable federal law requires the | ||
| landlord to give a tenant an opportunity to respond to a notice of | ||
| proposed eviction, a notice to vacate may not be given until the | ||
| period provided for the tenant to respond to the eviction notice has | ||
| expired. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an eviction suit in which the notice to vacate is given on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. An eviction suit in which the | ||
| notice to vacate is given before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective | ||
| date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2023. | ||
