By Eiland                                       H.B. No. 1691

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to enforcement of the Texas Fair Housing Practices Act.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 301.131(a), Texas Property Code, is

 1-5     amended as follows:

 1-6           (a)  If a timely election is made under Section 301.093, the

 1-7     commission may [shall] authorize and not later than the 30th day

 1-8     after the date the election is made the attorney general may

 1-9     [shall] file in a district court a civil action seeking relief on

1-10     behalf of the aggrieved person.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.