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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