Bill Text: TX SB2250 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the execution of a certificate of completion and to imposing certain requirements under a retail installment contract for the purchase of solar panels.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-05-22 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [SB2250 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2250-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2250
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2023; March 22, 2023, read
first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
April 27, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 27, 2023,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2250 By: Zaffirini

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the execution of a certificate of completion for the
purchase of solar panels under a retail installment contract.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 345, Finance Code, is
amended by adding Section 345.0811 to read as follows:
Sec. 345.0811. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION FOR SOLAR PANEL
RETAIL INSTALLMENT CONTRACT. (a) A retail seller of solar panels
may not require a retail buyer to execute a certificate unless the
solar panels are fully operational and pass the building code
inspection applicable to the retail buyer's property.
(b) A certificate executed under Subsection (a) is void if
the covered solar panel installation fails a building code
inspection before the first anniversary of the date the certificate
was signed by the retail buyer.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 345.081(f), a certificate
rendered void under Subsection (b) shall entitle the retail buyer
to deferment of installment under Section 345.069 until the retail
seller remedies the certificate.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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