1-1  By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 791
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1993; March 11, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  March 30, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 30, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Harris of Dallas                               x   
   1-12        Luna               x                               
   1-13        Parker                                         x   
   1-14        West                                           x   
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to a clarification of a commercial landlord's remedies for
   1-18  nonpayment of rent.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 93.002, Property Code, is
   1-21  amended to read as follows:
   1-22        (f)  If a landlord or a landlord's agent changes the door
   1-23  lock of a tenant who is delinquent in paying rent, the landlord or
   1-24  agent must place a written notice on the tenant's front door
   1-25  stating the name and the address or telephone number of the
   1-26  individual or company from which the new key may be obtained.  The
   1-27  new key is required to be provided only during the tenant's regular
   1-28  business hours and only if the tenant pays the delinquent rent.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-30        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-36                                                         Austin,
   1-37  Texas
   1-38                                                         March 30, 1993
   1-39  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-40  President of the Senate
   1-41  Sir:
   1-42  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B.
   1-43  No. 791, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-44  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-45  pass and be printed.
   1-46                                                         Henderson,
   1-47  Chairman
   1-48                               * * * * *
   1-49                               WITNESSES
   1-50  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 751.