SRC-SLL S.B. 1195 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1195
By: Lucio
Jurisprudence
4-22-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, the law does not provide form specifications for the recording
of certain legal instruments. This bill will provide form specifications
for the recording of certain legal instruments. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 1195  provides form specifications for the recording of
certain legal instruments. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 191.007(b), Local Government Code, to require a
page, among other requirements, to be a single sheet no wider than 8 _
inches and no longer than 14 inches and have at the top, bottom, and sides
at least a one-inch margin unless specified otherwise in this chapter, and
be suitable otherwise for reproducing from it a readable record by
electronic imaging used in the office of the county clerk. 

SECTION 2. Amends Chapter 191, Local Government Code, by adding Section
191.009, as follows: 

Sec.  191.009.  RECORDER'S INDEX INFORMATION.  Sets forth regulations
regarding the recording of instruments by the county clerk in the official
public records of real property. Provides that the only instruments exempt
from the provisions of this section are federal tax liens, release of
federal tax liens, state tax liens, release of state tax liens, and
standard financing statements. 

SECTION 3. Effective date: January 1, 1998.

SECTION 4. Emergency clause.