Bill Text: TX SB1737 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of conciliation agreements entered into under the Texas Fair Housing Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1737 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1737-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Miles  S.B. No. 1737
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2017; March 23, 2017, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
  Relations; May 3, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
  May 3, 2017, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1737 By:  Garcia
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the enforcement of conciliation agreements entered into
  under the Texas Fair Housing Act.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 301, Property Code, is
  amended by adding Section 301.134 to read as follows:
         Sec. 301.134.  CONCILIATION AGREEMENT ENFORCEMENT. The
  commission may monitor a respondent's compliance with a
  conciliation agreement entered into under this chapter. If the
  commission has reasonable cause to believe that a respondent has
  breached a conciliation agreement, the commission shall refer the
  matter to the attorney general with a recommendation for the
  attorney general to file in accordance with this subchapter a civil
  action to enforce the agreement.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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