Bill Text: TX HB3363 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a landlord's notice to residential tenants regarding rent increases.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Calendars Committee [HB3363 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3363-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Neave | H.B. No. 3363 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3363: | |||
By: Collier | C.S.H.B. No. 3363 |
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relating to a landlord's notice to residential tenants regarding | ||
rent increases. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 92, Property Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 92.026 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 92.026. NOTICE OF RENT INCREASES. (a) A landlord | ||
shall provide written notice to a tenant if the landlord proposes on | ||
renewal of the tenant's lease to increase the amount of rent the | ||
landlord charges the tenant on the date of the notice. | ||
(b) The notice required by Subsection (a) must state: | ||
(1) the amount of the tenant's rent after the increase; | ||
and | ||
(2) the effective date of the rent increase. | ||
(c) The landlord shall provide the notice required by | ||
Subsection (a) not later than the seventh day before the date the | ||
tenant is required to provide notice to vacate at the end of the | ||
lease term. | ||
(d) If a landlord fails to provide notice as required by | ||
Subsection (c), the landlord may not: | ||
(1) before the seventh day after the date the landlord | ||
provides to the tenant a notice in compliance with Subsection (b), | ||
require the tenant to provide notice to vacate the premises; and | ||
(2) for a tenant who renews the lease, increase the | ||
rent before the seventh day after the effective date of the renewal | ||
lease term. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 92.026, Property Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies only to a lease entered into or renewed on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A lease entered into or renewed before | ||
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed | ||
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |