Bill Text: TX SB1535 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1535 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to procedures to amend a declaration by a property owners association.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1535 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1535-Introduced.html



	By: Burton	S.B. No. 1535


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to procedures to amend a declaration by a property owners
	association.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 209.0041(h), Property Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(h) Except as provided by this subsection, a declaration may
	be amended only by a vote of 60 [67] percent of the total votes cast
	by members of [~~allocated to property owners in~~] the property
	owners' association, in addition to any governmental approval
	required by law. If the declaration contains a lower threshold
	[~~percentage~~], the threshold [~~percentage~~] in the declaration
	controls.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a vote held on or after November 1, 2015. A vote held before
	November 1, 2015, is governed by the law applicable to the election
	or vote 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, 2015.