By Cain                                               S.B. No. 1609
       74R8420 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to restrictive covenants applicable to certain real estate
    1-3  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:
    1-9              (1)  any <a> city <that has a population of more than
   1-10  1,600,000,> or <within> the extraterritorial jurisdiction of any
   1-11  <such a> city; or
   1-12              (2)  <in> the unincorporated area of a county having a
   1-13  population of 60,000 <2,400,000> or more.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  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.