Bill Text: TX HB4195 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the installation by a residential tenant of an electric vehicle charging station in a parking space assigned to the tenant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB4195 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4195-Introduced.html
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| By: Zwiener | H.B. No. 4195 | |
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| relating to the installation by a residential tenant of an electric | ||
| vehicle charging station in a parking space assigned to the tenant. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 92, Property Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 92.027 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 92.027. INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING | ||
| STATION BY TENANT OF MULTIUNIT COMPLEX. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Electric vehicle charging station" means | ||
| equipment manufactured for transferring electric energy from | ||
| electrical supply to an electric vehicle and associated | ||
| infrastructure necessary for the operation of the electric vehicle | ||
| charging station. | ||
| (2) "Multiunit complex" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 92.151. | ||
| (b) A tenant of a multiunit complex may install at the | ||
| tenant's expense an electric vehicle charging station in accordance | ||
| with this section at a parking space on the premises that is | ||
| assigned to the tenant for the tenant's exclusive use in a written | ||
| lease. | ||
| (c) A landlord shall, in any written lease that includes a | ||
| provision for the assignment of a specific parking space to a tenant | ||
| of a multiunit complex for the tenant's exclusive use, include | ||
| reasonable terms for the installation of an electric vehicle | ||
| charging station at the tenant's parking space. | ||
| (d) Terms included in a lease under Subsection (c): | ||
| (1) shall include a requirement that an electric | ||
| vehicle charging station and the installation of an electric | ||
| vehicle charging station comply with applicable law and safety | ||
| requirements for the protection of persons and property, including | ||
| that installation shall be performed only by a person who holds any | ||
| license required by law for the performance of the installation; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) may include requirements that: | ||
| (A) an electric vehicle charging station comply | ||
| with reasonable architectural standards governing the dimensions, | ||
| placement, or external appearance of the electric vehicle charging | ||
| station, provided that the standards may not prohibit or have the | ||
| effect of prohibiting the installation of a charging station or | ||
| substantially increase the installation cost; | ||
| (B) the installation of the electric vehicle | ||
| charging station not cause irreparable damage to the premises; and | ||
| (C) the tenant: | ||
| (i) remove the electric vehicle charging | ||
| station at the termination of the tenancy; and | ||
| (ii) return the premises to the same | ||
| condition as before the installation of the electric vehicle | ||
| charging station. | ||
| (e) A tenant who installs an electric vehicle charging | ||
| station under this section shall be responsible for the costs of | ||
| installation, operation, maintenance, and repair, including hazard | ||
| and liability insurance. | ||
| (f) The electricity for the electric vehicle charging | ||
| station must be separately metered or metered by an embedded meter | ||
| and payable by the tenant installing the charging station. | ||
| (g) This section does not require a landlord to provide an | ||
| assigned parking space to a tenant in order to accommodate an | ||
| electric vehicle charging station. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 92.027, 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. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
