By: Vasut H.B. No. 2232
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation by counties of build to rent communities
and the regulation by certain counties of manufactured home rental
communities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 232.007, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) and amending Subsection (e) to
read as follows:
(c-1) This subsection applies only to a county that has a
population of more than 370,000, borders the Gulf of Mexico, and is
adjacent to a county with a population of more than 3.3 million.
Notwithstanding Subsection (d) and after complying with the
procedures described by Subsection (c), the commissioners court of
a county may establish additional minimum infrastructure standards
for manufactured home rental communities located in the
unincorporated area of the county. The standards established under
this subsection may include only:
(1) reasonable lot or space size requirements;
(2) reasonable road width requirements based on the
lot or space density of the manufactured home rental community; and
(3) reasonable ingress and egress access based on the
lot or space density of the manufactured home rental community.
(e) If the commissioners court adopts minimum
infrastructure standards for manufactured home rental communities,
the owner of land located outside the limits of a municipality who
intends to use the land for a manufactured home rental community
must have an infrastructure development plan prepared that complies
with the minimum infrastructure standards adopted by the
commissioners court under this section [Subsection (c)].
SECTION 2. Chapter 232, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 232.0075 to read as follows:
Sec. 232.0075. BUILD TO RENT COMMUNITIES. (a) In this
section:
(1) "Build to rent community" means a plot or tract of
land that is separated into two or more spaces that contain a single
family dwelling and are rented, leased, or offered for rent or
lease, without a purchase option, for use and occupancy as
residences.
(2) "Single family dwelling" means having the
character of a detached one- or two-family dwelling with separate
means or egress, including the accessory structures of the
dwelling.
(b) A build to rent community is not a subdivision for
purposes of this chapter.
(c) Sections 232.001-232.006 do not apply to a build to rent
community.
(d) After a public hearing and after notice is published in
a newspaper of general circulation in the county, the commissioners
court of a county, by order adopted and entered in the minutes of
the commissioners court, may establish minimum infrastructure
standards for a build to rent community located in the
unincorporated area of a county. The minimum standards may include
only those standards allowed under Section 232.007.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by Section 1 of this Act
applies only to a manufactured home rental community for which
construction begins on or after the date minimum infrastructure
standards adopted by the commissioners court as provided by Section
232.007(c-1), Local Government Code, as added by this Act, take
effect.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by Section 2 of this Act
applies only to a build to rent community for which construction
begins on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.