By Eiland H.B. No. 1691
75R7085 T
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.