Amend SB 496 as follows:
      (1)  Add a new Section 4 to read as follows:
      "SECTION 4.  Subsection (a), Section 5.042, Property Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      (a)  The common-law rules known as the rule in Shelley's
case, the rule forbidding a remainder to the grantor's heirs, <and>
the doctrine of worthier title, and the doctrine or rule
prohibiting an existing lien upon part of a homestead from
extending to another part of the homestead not charged with the
debts secured by the existing lien upon part of the homestead do
not apply in this state."
      (2)  In existing SECTION 4 (Introduced version page 2, line
14), strike "Section 2 of this Act takes" and substitute "Sections
2 and 4 of this Act take"
      (3)  In existing SECTION 5, in the first and second sentences
of Subsection (a) (Introduced version page 2, lines 16 and 23),
strike "5 of this Act" and substitute "6 of this Act"
      (4)  Renumber SECTIONS accordingly