2025 bills / H.B. 126
H.B. 126 Unauthorized Use of Residential Real Property Modifications (2025)
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- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill lets a property owner or agent ask the sheriff to remove someone trespassing in a residential home, after filing a complaint, and lets the sheriff arrest the trespasser and charge a fee and hourly rate for the work. It also creates criminal penalties for unlawfully occupying or damaging a home, for presenting fake lease or deed documents, and for fraudulently listing or renting property.
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Official description
- authorizes property owners or their agents to request assistance from the sheriff for the immediate removal of a trespasser from a residential dwelling under certain conditions
- requires an owner seeking removal of a trespasser, or the owner's authorized agent, to submit a complaint
- specifies requirements for the complaint
- provides requirements for the sheriff
- authorizes a sheriff to arrest a trespasser for legal cause
- provides that a sheriff is entitled to a specified fee for service of notice to vacate
- authorizes the owner or agent to request that the sheriff stand by while the owner or agent takes possession of the property
- authorizes the sheriff to charge a reasonable hourly rate
- provides that the sheriff is not liable to any party for loss, destruction, or damage
- provides that the property owner or agent is not liable to any party for the loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal property unless it was wrongfully removed
- provides civil remedies
- imposes criminal penalties for unlawfully detaining, occupying, or trespassing of, a residential dwelling intentionally and causing a specified amount of damage; imposes criminal penalties for any person who knowingly and willfully presents a false document purporting to be a valid lease agreement, deed, or other instrument conveying real property rights
- imposes criminal penalties for fraudulently listing or advertising for sale, or renting or leasing, residential real property under certain circumstances; and provides criminal penalties for committing perjury
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- An alert the day H.B. 126 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 126 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
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