Bill Text: TX HB517 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to assess a fine for discolored vegetation or turf during a period of residential watering restriction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB517 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB517-Introduced.html
89R1958 CS-D | ||
By: Harris Davila | H.B. No. 517 |
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relating to the authority of a property owners' association to | ||
assess a fine for discolored vegetation or turf during a period of | ||
residential watering restriction. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 202, Property Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 202.008 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 202.008. LIMITATION ON FINES DURING RESIDENTIAL WATER | ||
RESTRICTION. (a) For the purposes of this section, "residential | ||
watering restriction" means a temporary restriction of water use to | ||
irrigate residential vegetation or turf that is mandated by a | ||
municipality, water utility, or other wholesale or retail water | ||
supplier as part of a strategy to conserve water during a period of | ||
drought. | ||
(b) A property owners' association may not assess a fine | ||
against a property owner for a violation of an applicable | ||
restrictive covenant that requires the owner to maintain green | ||
vegetation or turf or prohibits discolored or brown vegetation or | ||
turf on the property: | ||
(1) during a period when the owner's property is | ||
subject to a residential watering restriction under which | ||
discolored or brown vegetation or turf could reasonably result; and | ||
(2) for a reasonable period of time after a | ||
residential watering restriction described by Subdivision (1) is | ||
lifted. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |