By Talton                                       H.B. No. 1109

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                                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, 1997.

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.