The three qualifiers doing the work

Each limiting phrase in subsection (b) narrows the duty in a way worth reading closely.

“The current version.” The obligation attaches to what is in force, which makes the posting a maintenance duty rather than a one-time upload. An amendment recorded in the deed records changes what the current version is.

“Filed in the county deed records.” The duty reaches recorded instruments. An unrecorded policy, an internal procedure, or a board resolution that never went to the county clerk is outside the text of this section.

“Accessible to association members.” The statute does not require a public website. A members-only portal satisfies the section as written; the access standard is member access, not general publication.

The definition that came with it

Section 1 of the same act added Section 82.003(a)(17-a), defining a management company as “a person or entity established or contracted to provide management or administrative services on behalf of a unit owners' association organized under Section 82.101.” That definition is what makes the second trigger operable. It is drawn broadly — it covers administrative services as well as management, and it covers a person as well as an entity.

How it links to the TREC database

The posting duty does not stand alone. SB 711 simultaneously amended Section 82.116(a) to require the management certificate to state “the website address of any Internet website on which the association's dedicatory instruments are available in accordance with Section 82.1142.” Because that certificate is recorded with the county clerk and then filed electronically with the Texas Real Estate Commission under Section 82.116(b-1), the address of the members' portal becomes part of a searchable public record even where the portal itself is not public.

The consequence chain runs one way. A change of website address is a change in information required by Section 82.116(a), which under the amended subsection (b) triggers the 30-day duty to record an amended management certificate, which under subsection (b-1) triggers the seven-day duty to file it with TREC.

The Chapter 209 precedent

Property owners' associations have had a comparable online-information duty under Chapter 207 for some time; Section 209.004(a)(7) already required the management certificate to carry the website address of any site where dedicatory instruments are posted “in accordance with Section 207.006.” SB 711 imported the same architecture into the condominium chapter. What is new for condominiums is the underlying posting obligation, not the idea of one.

What to watch next

Section 82.1142 contains no stated remedy for non-compliance, no deadline for initial posting, and no agency enforcement. The consequences it carries are indirect — through the management certificate's contents and through the fee-forfeiture rule in Section 82.116(d) that attaches to an unfiled or unrecorded certificate. Whether a direct remedy gets added is a question for the 90th Legislature in 2027.