By Alvarado                                           H.B. No. 2628
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring certain persons entering a leased residential
 1-3     dwelling to place a notice of entry inside the dwelling.
 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 ENTRY REQUIRED.  A landlord or a
 1-8     landlord's agent who enters a residential dwelling shall place in a
 1-9     conspicuous location inside the dwelling a written notice to the
1-10     tenant stating:
1-11                 (1)  the purpose for the entry;
1-12                 (2)  the times at which the person entered and exited
1-13     the dwelling;
1-14                 (3)  the name and telephone number of the person who
1-15     unlocked the dwelling for purposes of entry; and
1-16                 (4)  if known, whether an additional entry is necessary
1-17     to complete the purpose of the entry.
1-18           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to a
1-20     landlord or a landlord's agent who enters a residential dwelling on
1-21     or after the effective date of this Act.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.