By: Turner, Jones of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Miles) H.B. No. 1193
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023;
May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local
Government; May 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting housing discrimination by a property
owners' association against a residential tenant based on the
tenant's method of payment.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 202, Property Code, is amended by adding
Section 202.024 to read as follows:
Sec. 202.024. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST TENANT BASED ON METHOD
OF PAYMENT PROHIBITED. (a) In this section, "method of payment"
includes payment made in whole or in part by:
(1) a housing choice voucher under Section 8, United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. Section 1437f); or
(2) any other federal or state or local housing
assistance provided to a person or to a property owner on behalf of
a person, including rental vouchers, rental assistance, or rental
subsidies from a nongovernmental organization.
(b) A property owners' association may not include or
enforce a provision in a dedicatory instrument that prohibits or
restricts a property owner from renting a dwelling to a person based
on the person's method of payment.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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