By Nixon                                               S.B. No. 726
         76R5181 WP-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to property owners' association elections.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 202, Property Code, is amended by adding
 1-5     Section 202.006 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 202.006.  PROPERTY OWNERS' ASSOCIATION ELECTION.  (a)
 1-7     The governing body of a property owners' association shall be
 1-8     elected or appointed in accordance with the applicable provisions
 1-9     of the dedicatory instrument and the association's articles of
1-10     incorporation.
1-11           (b)  For an election of members of the association's
1-12     governing body at which the names of more than one candidate are to
1-13     appear on the ballot, the order of the candidates' names shall be
1-14     determined by a drawing.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.