By Talton                                               H.B. No. 18
       74R304 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to restrictive covenants applicable to certain residential
    1-3  real estate subdivisions.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 201.001(a), Property Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  This chapter applies to a residential real estate
    1-8  subdivision that is located in whole or in part within a city that
    1-9  has a population of more than 100,000 <1,600,000>, or within the
   1-10  extraterritorial jurisdiction of such a city or in the
   1-11  unincorporated area of a county having a population of 2,400,000 or
   1-12  more.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.