Bill Text: TX HB900 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the liability of a landlord for damages resulting from the execution of a writ of possession in an eviction suit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB900 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB900-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 900 |
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relating to the liability of a landlord for damages resulting from | ||
the execution of a writ of possession in an eviction suit. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 24.0061, Property Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: | ||
(i) A landlord is not liable for damages to the tenant | ||
resulting from the execution of a writ of possession by an officer | ||
under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 24.0061(i), Property Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to the execution of a writ of possession | ||
issued in an eviction suit filed on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. Execution of a writ of possession issued in an eviction | ||
suit filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
law in effect 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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 900 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 900 on May 27, 2021, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 900 on May 30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 134, | ||
Nays 7, 2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 900 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays | ||
2; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
900 on May 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |