By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1681
(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2025; March 11, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
Services; April 28, 2025, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 28, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an annual boarding home facility report for certain
counties and municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 260, Health and Safety Code, is amended
by adding Section 260.0105 to read as follows:
Sec. 260.0105. COUNTY AND MUNICIPALITY REPORTING
REQUIREMENTS. (a) Not later than September 30 of each year, each
county or municipality that regulates boarding home facilities,
including a county or municipality that requires a person to obtain
a permit to operate a boarding home facility as authorized by
Section 260.004, shall submit to the commission in the form and
manner the commission requires a written report that includes:
(1) the county's or municipality's standards or
ordinances applicable to boarding home facilities in effect on the
date the report is submitted;
(2) any policies or procedures the county or
municipality requires to consider a resident's or prospective
resident's reasonable accommodation request;
(3) during the preceding year, the total number of:
(A) reasonable accommodation requests received,
approved, and rejected, including the reason a request was
rejected;
(B) complaints or actions brought against a
boarding home facility located in the county or municipality
related to a violation of federal or state fair housing laws; and
(C) boarding home facility closures, including
the reason a facility closed and the accommodations provided to the
facility's former residents;
(4) information on any activities the county or
municipality performs to support the operators of boarding home
facilities in complying with applicable regulations; and
(5) a summary of complaints the county or municipality
receives against boarding home facilities located in the county or
municipality.
(b) Each county or municipality shall report to the
commission any updates made to the standards or ordinances
described by Subsection (a)(1) after the report is submitted under
that subsection. A county or municipality shall report the updates
in the form and manner the commission requires.
(c) The executive commissioner may adopt rules as necessary
to implement this section.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 260.0105, Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act, a county or municipality is not
required to submit a report required by that section until
September 30, 2026.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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