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        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to the eligibility of certain persons to serve on the board | 
      
        |  | of a property owners' association. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 209.00591(b), Property Code, is amended | 
      
        |  | to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (b)  If a board is presented with written, documented | 
      
        |  | evidence from a database or other record maintained by a | 
      
        |  | governmental law enforcement authority that a board member was [ has  | 
      
        |  | been] convicted of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude not | 
      
        |  | more than 20 years before the date the board is presented with the | 
      
        |  | evidence, the board member is immediately ineligible to serve on | 
      
        |  | the board of the property owners' association, automatically | 
      
        |  | considered removed from the board, and prohibited from future | 
      
        |  | service on the board. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 1072 was passed by the House on May 6, | 
      
        |  | 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 3 present, not | 
      
        |  | voting. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 1072 was passed by the Senate on May | 
      
        |  | 24, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
        |  | APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
      
        |  | Date | 
      
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        |  | Governor |