By Woolley H.B. No. 2444
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a residential landlord's duty to mitigate damages when
1-3 a tenant abandons the leased premises before the lease expires.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 91.006, Property Code, is redesignated as
1-6 Section 92.013, Property Code, to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 92.013 [91.006]. LANDLORD'S DUTY TO MITIGATE DAMAGES.
1-8 (a) A landlord has a duty to mitigate damages if a tenant abandons
1-9 the 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. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.