By Carona                                              S.B. No. 166
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the meaning of a tenant turnover date in connection
 1-3     with requirements for security devices for residential rental
 1-4     property.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (15), Section 92.151, Property Code,
 1-7     is amended to read as follows:
 1-8                 (15)  "Tenant turnover date" means the date a new
 1-9     tenant moves into a dwelling under a lease after all previous
1-10     occupants [tenants] have moved out.   The term does not include
1-11     dates of entry or occupation not authorized by  the landlord.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  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.