SB1681 • 2025

Relating to an annual boarding home facility report for certain counties and municipalities.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Menéndez
Last action: 2025-05-26
Official status: 05/26/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to an annual boarding home facility report for certain counties and municipalities.

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Relating to an annual boarding home facility report for certain counties and municipalities.

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Bill History

2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Human Services
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Three day rule suspended
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the Senate
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on intent calendar
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendments
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Health & Human Services
2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to an annual boarding home facility report for certain counties and municipalities.

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89(R) SB 1681 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Menéndez

S.B. No. 1681

(Manuel)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to an annual boarding home facility report for certain

counties and municipalities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Chapter 260, Health and Safety Code, is amended

by adding Section 260.0105 to read as follows:

Sec.

260.0105.

COUNTY AND MUNICIPALITY REPORTING

REQUIREMENTS. (a) Not later than September 30 of each year, each

county or municipality that regulates boarding home facilities,

including a county or municipality that requires a person to obtain

a permit to operate a boarding home facility as authorized by

Section 260.004, shall submit to the commission in the form and

manner the commission requires a written report that includes:

(1)

the county's or municipality's standards or

ordinances applicable to boarding home facilities in effect on the

date the report is submitted;

(2)

any policies or procedures the county or

municipality requires to consider a resident's or prospective

resident's reasonable accommodation request;

(3) during the preceding year, the total number of:

(A)

reasonable accommodation requests received,

approved, and rejected, including the reason a request was

rejected;

(B)

complaints or actions brought against a

boarding home facility located in the county or municipality

related to a violation of federal or state fair housing laws; and

(C)

boarding home facility closures, including

the reason a facility closed and the accommodations provided to the

facility's former residents;

(4)

information on any activities the county or

municipality performs to support the operators of boarding home

facilities in complying with applicable regulations; and

(5)

a summary of complaints the county or municipality

receives against boarding home facilities located in the county or

municipality.

(b)

Each county or municipality shall report to the

commission any updates made to the standards or ordinances

described by Subsection (a)(1) after the report is submitted under

that subsection. A county or municipality shall report the updates

in the form and manner the commission requires.

(c)

The executive commissioner may adopt rules as necessary

to implement this section.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 260.0105, Health and

Safety Code, as added by this Act, a county or municipality is not

required to submit a report required by that section until

September 30, 2026.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.