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.