By Naishtat, Ehrhardt H.B. No. 2803 74R4614 MJW-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting improper utility disconnections in 1-3 residential tenancies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 92.008(a), Property Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) A landlord or a landlord's agent may not interrupt or 1-8 cause the interruption of utility service paid for directly to the 1-9 utility company by a tenant or furnished to the tenant as an 1-10 incident of the tenancy unless: 1-11 (1) the interruption results from bona fide repairs, 1-12 construction, or an emergency; or 1-13 (2) the utility service furnished to the tenant is 1-14 individually metered by the landlord and the landlord complies with 1-15 applicable law. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.