By Naishtat H.B. No. 2291 75R7605 CAS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a landlord's duty to mitigate damages under certain 1-3 circumstances. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 91, Property Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 91.006 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 91.006. LANDLORD'S DUTY TO MITIGATE DAMAGES. (a) A 1-8 landlord has a duty to mitigate damages if a tenant abandons the 1-9 leased premises in violation of the lease. 1-10 (b) A provision of a lease that purports to waive a right or 1-11 to exempt a landlord from a liability or duty under this section is 1-12 void. 1-13 SECTION 2. Section 91.006, Property Code, as added by this 1-14 Act, applies only to a lease entered into on or after the effective 1-15 date of this Act. 1-16 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 4. 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.