Amend CSHB 3101 by adding the following appropriately number 
SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS  accordingly:
	SECTION ____. Subchapter A, Chapter 92, Property Code, is 
amended by adding Section 92.020 to read as follows:
	Sec. 92.020.  EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER. (a) A landlord must 
provide to a tenant a telephone number that will be answered 24 
hours a day for the purpose of reporting emergencies related to a 
condition of the leased premises that materially affects the 
physical health or safety of an ordinary tenant.
	(b)  A landlord of residential rental property that has an 
onsite management or superintendent's office must post the phone 
number required by Subsection (a) prominently outside the 
management or superintendent's office.
	(c)  This section does not apply to of affect a local 
ordinance governing a landlord's obligation to provide a 24 hour 
emergency  contact number to a tenant that is adopted before January 
1, 2008 if the ordinance conforms with or is amended to conform with 
this section.