By Carona S.B. No. 166
76R3676 MLS-F
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.