By Allen                                              H.B. No. 3021

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the method of providing notice to vacate the premises

 1-3     in connection with an eviction action.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 24.005(f), Property Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (f)  The notice to vacate shall be given in person or by mail

 1-8     at the premises in question.  Notice in person may be by personal

 1-9     delivery to the tenant or any person residing at the premises who

1-10     is 16 years of age or older or personal delivery to the premises

1-11     and affixing the notice to the inside of the main entry door.  If a

1-12     keyless bolting device, alarm system, or dangerous animal prevents

1-13     the landlord from entering the premises, the landlord may securely

1-14     affix the notice to the outside of the main entry door.  Notice by

1-15     mail may be by regular mail or by registered or by certified mail,

1-16     return receipt requested, to the premises in question.

1-17           SECTION 2.  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,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.