Bill Text: TX HB1510 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 1510 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to liability of persons who lease dwellings to persons with criminal records.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 1/1/16 [HB1510 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1510-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 1510




	AN ACT
	relating to liability of persons who lease dwellings to persons
	with criminal records.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 92, Property Code, is
	amended by adding Section 92.025 to read as follows:
	Sec. 92.025. LIABILITY FOR LEASING TO PERSON WITH CRIMINAL
	RECORD. (a) A cause of action does not accrue against a landlord or
	a landlord's manager or agent solely for leasing a dwelling to a
	tenant convicted of, or arrested or placed on deferred adjudication
	for, an offense.
	(b) This section does not preclude a cause of action for
	negligence in leasing of a dwelling by a landlord or a landlord's
	manager or agent to a tenant, if:
	(1) the tenant:
	(A) was convicted of an offense listed in Section
	3g, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure; or
	(B) has a reportable conviction or adjudication,
	as defined by Article 62.001, Code of Criminal Procedure; and
	(2) the person against whom the action is filed knew or
	should have known of the conviction or adjudication.
	(c) This section does not create a cause of action or expand
	an existing cause of action.
	SECTION 2. Section 92.025, Property Code, as added by this
	Act, does not affect a cause of action that accrued before the
	effective date of this Act. A cause of action that accrued before
	the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
	immediately before that date, and the former law is continued in
	effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2016.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 1510 was passed by the House on May 5,
	2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 1510 on May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0,
	3 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 1510 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
	0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor