Bill Text: TX HB4170 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to venue in certain actions involving private transfer fees for real property.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB4170 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB4170-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 4170

AN ACT
relating to venue in certain actions involving private transfer
fees for real property.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 5, Property Code, is
amended by adding Section 5.208 to read as follows:
Sec. 5.208. VENUE. Notwithstanding any other law, an
action brought under this subchapter, other than an action brought
by the attorney general, must be brought in the county in which the
real property is located.
SECTION 2. Section 5.208, Property Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to an action filed on or after the effective date
of this Act. An action filed 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, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4170 was passed by the House on May
10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4170 was passed by the Senate on May
28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor