By Goodman H.B. No. 1554 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to separate property of a spouse. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3.63, Family Code, is amended by 1-5 adding a new Subsection (c), to read as follows: 1-6 (c) In a decree of divorce or annulment the court shall 1-7 treat the following real and personal property, wherever situated, 1-8 as the separate property of a spouse: 1-9 (1) property that was acquired by a spouse while 1-10 domiciled elsewhere that would have been separate property if the 1-11 spouse who acquired the property had been domiciled in this state 1-12 at the time of the acquisition; or 1-13 (2) property that was acquired by a spouse in exchange 1-14 for real or personal property and that would have been separate 1-15 property if the spouse who acquired the property so exchanged had 1-16 been domiciled in this state at the time of its acquisition. 1-17 SECTION 2. This act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.