Bill Text: TX HB3664 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to removal of certain eviction case information from credit reports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-19 - Left pending in committee [HB3664 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3664-Introduced.html
| 88R9471 DRS-D | ||
| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 3664 | |
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| relating to removal of certain eviction case information from | ||
| credit reports. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 24, Property Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 24.012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 24.012. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN EVICTION CASE INFORMATION | ||
| FROM CREDIT REPORT. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Consumer reporting agency" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 20.01, Business & Commerce Code. | ||
| (2) "Eviction case" means a lawsuit brought under this | ||
| chapter to recover possession of leased or rented residential real | ||
| property from a tenant. | ||
| (3) "Eviction case information" means all records and | ||
| files related to a filing of an eviction case, including petitions | ||
| and dispositions. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a residential tenant who: | ||
| (1) was the defendant in an eviction case in which a | ||
| judgment was entered for the plaintiff; | ||
| (2) after entry of the judgment in the eviction case: | ||
| (A) paid all money owed to the plaintiff; and | ||
| (B) executed a new lease agreement with the | ||
| landlord who was the plaintiff in the eviction case; and | ||
| (3) is not in default under the lease agreement | ||
| described in Subdivision (2). | ||
| (c) A residential tenant may submit to a consumer reporting | ||
| agency a written request to have the eviction case information | ||
| pertaining to an eviction case described by Subsection (b) removed | ||
| from the tenant's credit report. | ||
| (d) Unless required by federal law, a consumer reporting | ||
| agency that receives a written request under Subsection (c): | ||
| (1) may not use the eviction case information that is | ||
| the subject of the written request in a credit report; and | ||
| (2) not later than the 90th day after the date the | ||
| consumer reporting agency receives the request, shall remove the | ||
| eviction case information that is the subject of the request from | ||
| any credit report created or maintained by the consumer reporting | ||
| agency. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
