By Solis                                              H.B. No. 2649
       74R7201 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to regulating leasing in certain manufactured home
    1-3  communities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Title 8, Property Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Chapter 94 to read as follows:
    1-7               CHAPTER 94.  MANUFACTURED HOME TENANCIES
    1-8        Sec. 94.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:
    1-9              (1)  "Landlord" means the owner of a manufactured home
   1-10  community and includes an agent or employee of the landlord.
   1-11              (2)  "Manufactured home" has the meaning assigned by
   1-12  Section 3, Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act (Article 5221f,
   1-13  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
   1-14              (3)  "Manufactured home community" means a parcel of
   1-15  land on which 25 or more spaces are rented or available for rent
   1-16  for installing and occupying manufactured homes.
   1-17              (4)  "Tenant" means a person who is authorized by lease
   1-18  to occupy a space in a manufactured home community.
   1-19        Sec. 94.002.  APPLICABILITY.  This chapter applies only to a
   1-20  landlord of a manufactured home community.
   1-21        Sec. 94.003.  LEASE REQUIREMENTS.  (a)  A landlord may not
   1-22  rent space in a manufactured home community unless the landlord
   1-23  provides the tenant with a written lease.
   1-24        (b)  At a tenant's request, a landlord shall renew the term
    2-1  of a lease at the expiration of a lease unless at the time of
    2-2  expiration grounds for termination of the lease exist and the
    2-3  requirements of Section 94.004(b) have been satisfied.
    2-4        Sec. 94.004.  TERMINATION OF LEASE.  (a)  A landlord may
    2-5  terminate a lease only if:
    2-6              (1)  the tenant fails to comply with local or state
    2-7  laws relating to manufactured homes or with reasonable lease
    2-8  provisions or manufactured home community rules; or
    2-9              (2)  the rented space is condemned.
   2-10        (b)  A landlord who terminates a lease under this section
   2-11  must:
   2-12              (1)  notify the tenant in writing that the lease is
   2-13  terminated; and
   2-14              (2)  provide the tenant not less than 30 days to remove
   2-15  a tenant-owned manufactured home.
   2-16        Sec. 94.005.  PROHIBITED ACTS.  (a)  A landlord may not
   2-17  refuse to rent a space in a manufactured home community to a person
   2-18  because the person purchased the manufactured home that is to be
   2-19  installed on the space from a seller who is not approved by the
   2-20  landlord.
   2-21        (b)  A landlord may not require a tenant who sells a
   2-22  manufactured home to pay a transfer fee to the landlord.
   2-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.