73R4485 MJW-F
          By Bailey                                              H.B. No. 804
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 804:
          By Brady                                           C.S.H.B. No. 804
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to recording an abstract of judgment in a county's
    1-3  official real property records.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 11, Property Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 11.008 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11.008.  CREDITOR'S ADDRESS REQUIRED FOR ABSTRACT OF
    1-8  JUDGMENT.  (a)  A judgment abstracted after September 1, 1993, may
    1-9  not be recorded unless:
   1-10              (1)  a mailing address of each plaintiff or judgment
   1-11  creditor appears on the abstract of judgment; or
   1-12              (2)  a penalty filing fee equal to the greater of $25
   1-13  or twice the statutory recording fee for the instrument is paid.
   1-14        (b)  The validity of an abstracted judgment as between the
   1-15  parties is not affected by a failure to include an address of each
   1-16  plaintiff or judgment creditor in the abstracted judgment.
   1-17        (c)  Payment of a filing fee and acceptance of the abstract
   1-18  of judgment by the county clerk for recording creates a conclusive
   1-19  presumption that the requirements of this section have been met.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Section 52.003, Property Code, is amended to read
   1-21  as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 52.003.  CONTENTS OF ABSTRACT.  (a)  An abstract of a
   1-23  judgment must show:
    2-1              (1)  the names of the plaintiff and defendant;
    2-2              (2)  the birthdate and driver's license number of the
    2-3  defendant, if available to the clerk or justice;
    2-4              (3)  the number of the suit in which the judgment was
    2-5  rendered;
    2-6              (4)  the defendant's address, or if the address is not
    2-7  shown in the suit, the nature of citation and the date and place of
    2-8  service of citation;
    2-9              (5)  the date on which the judgment was rendered;
   2-10              (6)  the amount for which the judgment was rendered and
   2-11  the balance due;
   2-12              (7)  the amount of the balance due, if any, for child
   2-13  support arrearage; and
   2-14              (8)  the rate of interest specified in the judgment.
   2-15        (b)  An abstract of a judgment may show the address of each
   2-16  plaintiff or judgment creditor.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-23  passage, and it is so enacted.