By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 791
       73R5607 LJD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a clarification of a commercial landlord's remedies for
    1-3  nonpayment of rent.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 93.002(f), Property Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  If a landlord or a landlord's agent changes the door
    1-8  lock of a tenant who is delinquent in paying rent, the landlord or
    1-9  agent must place a written notice on the tenant's front door
   1-10  stating the name and the address or telephone number of the
   1-11  individual or company from which the new key may be obtained.  The
   1-12  new key is required to be provided only during the tenant's regular
   1-13  business hours and only if the tenant pays the delinquent rent.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.