By: Cook H.B. No. 2018
73R4858 LJD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the voluntary designation of homestead.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 41.005(c), Property Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (c) To designate property as a homestead, a person or
1-7 persons, as applicable, must make the designation in an instrument
1-8 that is signed and acknowledged or proved in the manner required
1-9 for the recording of other instruments. The person or persons must
1-10 file the designation with the county clerk of the county in which
1-11 all or part of the property is located. The clerk shall record the
1-12 designation in the county deed records. The designation must
1-13 contain:
1-14 (1) a description sufficient to identify the property
1-15 designated;
1-16 (2) a statement by the person or persons who executed
1-17 the instrument that the property is designated as the homestead of
1-18 the person's family or as the homestead of a single adult person
1-19 not otherwise entitled to a homestead; and
1-20 (3) <the name of the original grantee of the property;
1-21 and>
1-22 <(4)> for a rural homestead, the number of acres
1-23 designated and, if there is more than one survey, the number of
1-24 acres in each.
2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.