By Bailey                                              H.B. No. 804
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to recording of abstracts of judgment in the Official
    1-3  Public Records of Real Property.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Title 3, Chapter 11, Texas Property Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding a new Section 11.008 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11.008.  CREDITOR'S ADDRESS.  (a)  A judgment abstracted
    1-8  after September 1, 1993, may not be recorded unless:
    1-9              (1)  a mailing address of each plaintiff or judgment
   1-10  creditor appears on the Abstract of Judgment; or
   1-11              (2)  a penalty filing fee equal to the greater of
   1-12  $25.00 or twice the statutory recording fee for the instrument is
   1-13  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  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 each plaintiff or
   1-19  judgment creditor.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.