| 1 | 1 | | By: West S.B. No. 1120 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Anchia) |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to a residential tenant's lease obligation after the loss |
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| 8 | 8 | | of the leased premises resulting from a natural disaster. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 92, Property Code, is |
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| 11 | 11 | | amended by adding Section 92.062 to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Sec. 92.062. LEASE TERM AFTER NATURAL DISASTER. If a rental |
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| 13 | 13 | | premises is, as a practical matter, totally unusable for |
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| 14 | 14 | | residential purposes as a result of a natural disaster such as a |
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| 15 | 15 | | hurricane, tornado, flood, extended freeze, or widespread |
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| 16 | 16 | | windstorm, a landlord that allows a tenant to move to another rental |
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| 17 | 17 | | unit owned by the landlord may not require the tenant to execute a |
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| 18 | 18 | | lease for a term longer than the term remaining on the tenant's |
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| 19 | 19 | | lease on the date the premises was rendered unusable as a result of |
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| 20 | 20 | | the natural disaster. |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 2. Section 92.062, Property Code, as added by this |
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| 22 | 22 | | Act, applies only to a lease that is executed or renewed on or after |
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| 23 | 23 | | January 1, 2014. A lease that is executed or renewed before January |
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| 24 | 24 | | 1, 2014, is governed by the law in effect at the time the lease was |
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| 25 | 25 | | executed or renewed, and that law is continued in effect for that |
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| 26 | 26 | | purpose. |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2014. |
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