By Hill H.B. No. 2408 76R7769 WP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to notice to tenants of certain changes in policy by a 1-3 landlord. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 92, Property Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 92.013 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 92.013. NOTICE OF POLICY CHANGE AFFECTING TENANT'S 1-8 PERSONAL PROPERTY. (a) A landlord shall give prior written notice 1-9 by certified mail, return receipt requested, to a tenant regarding 1-10 a change in policy not included in the lease agreement that will 1-11 affect any personal property owned by the tenant that is located 1-12 outside the tenant's dwelling, including any change in automobile 1-13 towing policies. 1-14 (b) A tenant to whom a landlord fails to give notice as 1-15 required by Subsection (a) may deduct from the tenant's rent, 1-16 without necessity of judicial action, any expense incurred as a 1-17 result of the landlord's failure to give the notice. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.