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According to Janet Elliot of the Houston Chronicle, “The Texas Residential Construction Commission, highly criticized by the homeowners it was meant to protect, appears headed toward its demise because Senate lawmakers don’t have the votes to keep the agency alive.” The TRCC Sunset bill, which would have made changes and continued the agency, recently passed the House, but the bill was not able to make it out of committee in the House by the deadline on Friday. The TRCC was described as “fundamentally flawed” by the state review agency last year, and an agency report revealed that “only 12 percent of cases where the state had sent in inspectors to review alleged defects have resulted in a ‘satisfactory offer or repair or compensation over the life of the program.’”

Learn More: Houston Chronicle