1-1 By: Ratliff S.J.R. No. 30
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1993; March 9, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 4, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 4, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 30 By: Carriker
1-22 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
1-23 proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the voluntary
1-24 designation of less than 200 acres as a rural homestead.
1-25 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Article XVI, Section 51, of the Texas
1-27 Constitution is amended to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 51. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
1-29 section, the <The> homestead, not in a town or city, shall consist
1-30 of not more than two hundred acres of land, which may be in one or
1-31 more parcels, with the improvements thereon; the homestead in a
1-32 city, town, or village, shall consist of lot or lots amounting to
1-33 not more than one acre of land, together with any improvements on
1-34 the land; provided, that the same shall be used for the purposes of
1-35 a home, or as a place to exercise the calling or business of the
1-36 homestead claimant, whether a single adult person, or the head of a
1-37 family; provided also, that any temporary renting of the homestead
1-38 shall not change the character of the same, when no other homestead
1-39 has been acquired.
1-40 (b) The legislature by law may provide for the owner of less
1-41 than two hundred acres of land, not in a town or city and composed
1-42 of two or more noncontiguous parcels, to voluntarily designate one
1-43 or more parcels of that land as a rural homestead, waiving
1-44 homestead rights to which the owner is otherwise entitled in any
1-45 parcel excluded from the homestead designation and on which the
1-46 owner does not reside.
1-47 SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
1-48 submitted to the voters at an election to be held on November 2,
1-49 1993. The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or
1-50 against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing
1-51 the voluntary designation of less than 200 acres as a rural
1-52 homestead."
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1-54 Austin,
1-55 Texas
1-56 May 4, 1993
1-57 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-58 President of the Senate
1-59 Sir:
1-60 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.J.R.
1-61 No. 30, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-62 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-63 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
1-64 do pass and be printed.
1-65 Harris of
1-66 Dallas, Chairman
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1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 FOR AGAINST ON
2-2 ___________________________________________________________________
2-3 Name: Phill Parmer x
2-4 Representing:
2-5 City: Sunrise Beach
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2-7 Name: Robert Sneed x
2-8 Representing: Texas Land Title
2-9 City: Austin
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2-11 Name: Durwood Tucker x
2-12 Representing: Texas Farm Bureau
2-13 City: Austin
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2-15 Name: Karen M. Neeley x
2-16 Representing: Independent Bankers Assn of Tx
2-17 City: Austin
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2-19 Name: Gayle Vickers x
2-20 Representing: Texas Builders Assn
2-21 City: Austin
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