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Amend HB 1454 by inserting the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS:  
	SECTION ____.  Section 209.008, Property Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
	(h)  An attorney may not enter into a contract or agreement 
to represent a property owners' association under which legal fees 
are charged to an owner's assessment account and payment of the fees 
is delayed until after the account is collected from the owner or 
the occurrence of another specified event.  An attorney who 
provides services described by this subsection may not collect 
payment for legal fees for those services directly from the owner 
from whom the association has the right to collect the legal fees or 
defer payment of the fees until the association receives payment 
from the owner.  This subsection does not prohibit an attorney from 
collecting a debt, including legal fees, and forwarding the amount 
collected to the association.
	SECTION ____.  Section 209.008(h), Property Code, as added 
by this Act, applies only to a contract or agreement entered into on 
or after the effective date of this Act.  A contract or agreement 
entered into before the effective date of this Act is governed by 
the law in effect immediately before that date, and that law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.