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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 592.016: HOUSING.

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  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 7. MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
  3. SUBTITLE D. PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY ACT
  4. CHAPTER 592. RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
  5. SUBCHAPTER B. BASIC BILL OF RIGHTS

An owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee, or managing agent or other person having the right to sell, rent, or lease real property, or an agent or employee of any of these, may not refuse to sell, rent, or lease to any person or group of persons solely because the person is a person with an intellectual disability or a group that includes one or more persons with an intellectual disability.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.

Amended by:

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1412, eff. April 2, 2015.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

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