1-1     By:  Eiland (Senate Sponsor - Jackson)                H.B. No. 3736
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the applicability of procedures governing restrictive
 1-9     covenants in certain residential subdivisions.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 201.001(a), Property Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (a)  This chapter applies to a residential real estate
1-14     subdivision that is located in whole or in part:
1-15                 (1)  within a city that has a population of more than
1-16     100,000, or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of such a
1-17     city;  [or]
1-18                 (2)  in the unincorporated area of:
1-19                       (A)  a county having a population of 2,400,000 or
1-20     more; or
1-21                       (B)  a county having a population of 190,000 or
1-22     more that is adjacent to a county having a population of 2,400,000
1-23     or more; or
1-24                 (3)  in the incorporated area of a county having a
1-25     population of 190,000 or more that is adjacent to a county having a
1-26     population of 2,400,000 or more.
1-27           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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