85R12682 PMO-D     By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1228       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the approval by a property owners' association of   repairs to residential property after a weather-related or   naturally occurring event.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Chapter 209, Property Code, is amended by adding   Section 209.018 to read as follows:          Sec. 209.018.  REPAIRS AFTER NATURALLY OCCURRING EVENT.   Unless expressly prohibited by a dedicatory instrument, a property   owners' association or, if applicable, an architectural committee   established by the association or the association's dedicatory   instruments shall immediately approve an application to repair   damage to a property owner's property caused by a weather-related   or other naturally occurring event if the property owner has   applied to substantially restore the property to the condition the   property was in immediately before the event occurred.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.