Texas § GV.2306.936 - REMEDIATION OF COMPLAINT REGARDING CERTAIN VIOLATIONS

§ GV.2306.936. REMEDIATION OF COMPLAINT REGARDING CERTAIN VIOLATIONS

REMEDIATION OF COMPLAINT REGARDING CERTAIN VIOLATIONS. (a) This section applies only to a complaint that alleges a violation that the department determines poses an imminent hazard or threat to the health and safety of the occupants of the facility, including violations of rules adopted by the department concerning sanitation. (b) Subject to Subsection (d), not later than the 30th day after the date notice is received under Section 2306.934 , the operator of a migrant labor housing facility that is the subject of a complaint described by Subsection (a) shall remedy the complaint. (c) The department may refer a complaint described by Subsection (a) to a local authority for immediate inspection of the migrant labor housing facility. (d) The department by rule shall establish a procedure for requiring the owner of a migrant labor housing facility to relocate or provide for the relocation to another housing facility of the occupants of a facility that is the subject of a complaint under Subsection (a) if the remediation of that complaint is projected to take longer than a period of 30 days. A housing facility to which a person is relocated under this subsection: (1) must meet the occupancy standards adopted under this subchapter; (2) must be located in the same vicinity as the vacated facility; and (3) may not require a rent payment from a displaced migrant agricultural worker that exceeds the rent charged for the vacated facility. (e) Subsection (d) does not apply to a migrant agricultural worker who is temporarily in the United States under an H-2A visa authorized under 8 U.S.C. Section 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a). Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 695 (S.B. 243 ), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.