Bill Text: TX HB648 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of clotheslines by a property owners' association.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-12 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB648 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB648-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Cortez | H.B. No. 648 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 648: | |||
| By: Button | C.S.H.B. No. 648 | ||
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| relating to the regulation of clotheslines by a property owners' | ||
| association. | ||
| 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. REGULATION OF CLOTHESLINES. (a) This | ||
| section does not apply to a condominium as defined by Section 81.002 | ||
| or 82.003. | ||
| (b) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a property | ||
| owners' association may not include or enforce a provision in a | ||
| dedicatory instrument that prohibits or restricts a property owner | ||
| from installing or using a clothesline on the owner's property for | ||
| the purpose of drying laundry, provided the clothesline is not in an | ||
| area visible from ground level from another lot or from an adjoining | ||
| or adjacent street. | ||
| (c) A provision that violates Subsection (b) is void. | ||
| (d) This section does not prohibit the inclusion or | ||
| enforcement of a provision in a dedicatory instrument that: | ||
| (1) prohibits a clothesline that: | ||
| (A) as adjudicated by a court: | ||
| (i) threatens the public health or safety; | ||
| or | ||
| (ii) violates a law; | ||
| (B) is located on property owned or maintained by | ||
| the property owners' association; | ||
| (C) is located on property owned in common by the | ||
| members of the property owners' association; or | ||
| (D) is visible above the fence line of a fenced | ||
| yard or patio maintained by the property owner; or | ||
| (2) prohibits or requires prior approval of the | ||
| property owners' association for a clothesline located: | ||
| (A) in or on a front or side yard or patio | ||
| maintained by the property owner; or | ||
| (B) in an area of a back or side yard or patio | ||
| that: | ||
| (i) is not fenced; or | ||
| (ii) is fenced with chain-link fencing or | ||
| another fencing material that is not primarily opaque and solid. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
