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.