By: Brown, Carona S.B. No. 884 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to a landlord's duty to mitigate damages under certain 1-2 circumstances. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 92, Property Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 92.013 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 92.013. LANDLORD'S DUTY TO MITIGATE DAMAGES. (a) A 1-7 landlord has a duty to mitigate damages if a tenant abandons the 1-8 leased premises in violation of the lease. 1-9 (b) A provision of a lease that purports to waive a right or 1-10 to exempt a landlord from a liability or duty under this section is 1-11 void. 1-12 SECTION 2. Section 91.006, Property Code, is repealed. 1-13 SECTION 3.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, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.