HB2630 - Relating to declarant control of certain property owners' associations.

  89R4623 SCR-D     By: Harris Davila H.B. No. 2630       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to declarant control of certain property owners'   associations.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 209.00591(c), Property Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (c)  The declaration may provide for a period of declarant   control of the association during which a declarant, or persons   designated by the declarant, may appoint and remove board members   and the officers of the association, other than board members or   officers elected by members of the property owners' association.   Regardless of the period of declarant control provided by the   declaration : [ , ]                 (1)     on or before the 120th day after the date 50   percent of the lots that may be created and made subject to the   declaration are conveyed to owners other than a declarant or a   builder in the business of constructing homes who purchased the   lots from the declarant for the purpose of selling completed homes   built on the lots, at least one board member must be elected by   owners other than the declarant;                 (2)   on or before the 120th day after the date 75   percent of the lots that may be created and made subject to the   declaration are conveyed as described by Subdivision (1) [ to owners   other than a declarant or a builder in the business of constructing   homes who purchased the lots from the declarant for the purpose of   selling completed homes built on the lots ], at least one-third of   the board members must be elected by owners other than the   declarant ; and                 (3)  if [ . If ] the declaration does not include the   number of lots that may be created and made subject to the   declaration, at least one-third of the board members must be   elected by owners other than the declarant not later than the fifth   [ 10th ] anniversary of the date the declaration was recorded.          SECTION 2.  Section 209.00591, Property Code, as amended by   this Act, applies to a declaration regardless of whether the   declaration was created or amended before, on, or after the   effective date of this Act.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.