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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to a residential tenant's lease obligation after the loss |
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of the leased premises resulting from a natural disaster. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 92, Property Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 92.062 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 92.062. LEASE TERM AFTER NATURAL DISASTER. If a |
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premises is, as a practical matter, totally unusable for |
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residential purposes as a result of a natural disaster such as a |
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hurricane, tornado, flood, extended freeze, or widespread |
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windstorm, a landlord that relocates a tenant to another property |
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owned by the landlord may not require the tenant to execute a lease |
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for a term longer than the term remaining on the tenant's lease on |
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the date the premises was rendered unusable as a result of the |
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natural disaster. |
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SECTION 2. Section 92.062, Property Code, as added by this |
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Act, applies only to a lease that is executed or renewed on or after |
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September 1, 2013. A lease that is executed or renewed before |
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September 1, 2013, is governed by the law in effect at the time the |
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lease was executed or renewed, and that law is continued in effect |
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for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |