1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 166
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 15, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     February 15, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-6     February 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 166                  By:  Shapiro
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the meaning of a tenant turnover date in connection
1-11     with requirements for security devices for residential rental
1-12     property.
1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (15), Section 92.151, Property Code,
1-15     is amended to read as follows:
1-16                 (15)  "Tenant turnover date" means the date a [new]
1-17     tenant moves into a dwelling under a lease after all previous
1-18     occupants [tenants] have moved out.  The term does not include
1-19     dates of entry or occupation not authorized by the landlord.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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