By: Ratliff S.J.R. No. 30
73R4315 LJD-D
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1-1 proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the voluntary
1-2 designation of less than 200 acres as a rural homestead.
1-3 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article XVI, Section 51, of the Texas
1-5 Constitution is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 51. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
1-7 section, the <The> homestead, not in a town or city, shall consist
1-8 of not more than two hundred acres of land, which may be in one or
1-9 more parcels, with the improvements thereon; the homestead in a
1-10 city, town, or village, shall consist of lot or lots amounting to
1-11 not more than one acre of land, together with any improvements on
1-12 the land; provided, that the same shall be used for the purposes of
1-13 a home, or as a place to exercise the calling or business of the
1-14 homestead claimant, whether a single adult person, or the head of a
1-15 family; provided also, that any temporary renting of the homestead
1-16 shall not change the character of the same, when no other homestead
1-17 has been acquired.
1-18 (b) The legislature by law may provide for the owner of less
1-19 than two hundred acres of land, not in a town or city, to
1-20 voluntarily designate a portion of that land as a rural homestead,
1-21 waiving homestead rights to which the owner is otherwise entitled
1-22 in property excluded from the designation.
1-23 SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
1-24 submitted to the voters at an election to be held on November 2,
2-1 1993. The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or
2-2 against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing
2-3 the voluntary designation of less than 200 acres as a rural
2-4 homestead."