Amend HB 2127 (senate committee printing) in SECTION 7 of the bill, in added Section 102A.002, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, as follows:
(1) Between "REGULATION." and "Any" (page 2, line 27), insert "(a)".
(2) Strike "actual or threatened, from" (page 2, lines 28 and 29), and substitute "or is able to demonstrate a realistic danger of sustaining a direct injury as a result of".
(3) Strike "or a trade association representing the person" (page 2, line 32).
(4) Immediately after "Property Code." (page 2, between lines 43 and 44), insert the following:
(b) A trade association representing a person described by Subsection (a) has standing to bring and may bring an action against the municipality, county, or municipal or county official for the violation with respect to the person if:
(1) the association's members otherwise have standing to bring the action in their own right;
(2) the interests the association seeks to protect in the action are germane to the association' s purpose; and
(3) the claim asserted and the relief requested in the action do not require the participation of individual members of the association in the action.