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        |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
      
        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to uniform law on secured transactions. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 9.102, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended by amending Subdivisions (7), (10), (50), and (71) and | 
      
        |  | adding Subdivision (68-a) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (7)  "Authenticate" means: | 
      
        |  | (A)  to sign; or | 
      
        |  | (B)  [ to execute or otherwise adopt a symbol, or  | 
      
        |  | encrypt or similarly process a record in whole or in part,] with | 
      
        |  | [ the] present intent [of the authenticating person] to [identify  | 
      
        |  | the person and] adopt or accept a record, to attach to or logically | 
      
        |  | associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process. | 
      
        |  | (10)  "Certificate of title" means a certificate of | 
      
        |  | title with respect to which a statute provides for the security | 
      
        |  | interest in question to be indicated on the certificate as a | 
      
        |  | condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority | 
      
        |  | over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the collateral. | 
      
        |  | The term includes another record maintained as an alternative to a | 
      
        |  | certificate of title by the governmental unit that issues | 
      
        |  | certificates of title if a statute permits the security interest in | 
      
        |  | question to be indicated on the record as a condition or result of | 
      
        |  | the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a | 
      
        |  | lien creditor with respect to the collateral. | 
      
        |  | (50)  "Jurisdiction of organization," with respect to a | 
      
        |  | registered organization, means the jurisdiction under whose law the | 
      
        |  | organization is formed or organized. | 
      
        |  | (68-a)  "Public organic record" means a record that is | 
      
        |  | available to the public for inspection and that is: | 
      
        |  | (A)  a record consisting of the record initially | 
      
        |  | filed with or issued by a state or the United States to form or | 
      
        |  | organize an organization and any record filed with or issued by the | 
      
        |  | state or the United States that amends or restates the initial | 
      
        |  | record; | 
      
        |  | (B)  an organic record of a business trust | 
      
        |  | consisting of the record initially filed with a state and any record | 
      
        |  | filed with the state that amends or restates the initial record, if | 
      
        |  | a statute of the state governing business trusts requires that the | 
      
        |  | record be filed with the state; or | 
      
        |  | (C)  a record consisting of legislation enacted by | 
      
        |  | the legislature of a state or the Congress of the United States that | 
      
        |  | forms or organizes an organization, any record amending the | 
      
        |  | legislation, and any record filed with or issued by the state or the | 
      
        |  | United States that amends or restates the name of the | 
      
        |  | organization. | 
      
        |  | (71)  "Registered organization" means an organization | 
      
        |  | formed or organized solely under the law of a single state or the | 
      
        |  | United States by the filing of a public organic record with, the | 
      
        |  | issuance of a public organic record by, or the enactment of | 
      
        |  | legislation by [ and as to which] the state or the United States | 
      
        |  | [ must maintain a public record showing the organization to have  | 
      
        |  | been organized].  The term includes a business trust that is formed | 
      
        |  | or organized under the law of a single state if a statute of the | 
      
        |  | state governing business trusts requires that the business trust's | 
      
        |  | organic record be filed with the state. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  Section 9.105, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.105.  CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC CHATTEL PAPER.  (a)  A | 
      
        |  | secured party has control of electronic chattel paper if a system | 
      
        |  | employed for evidencing the transfer of interests in the chattel | 
      
        |  | paper reliably establishes the secured party as the person to which | 
      
        |  | the chattel paper was assigned. | 
      
        |  | (b)  A system satisfies Subsection (a), and a secured party | 
      
        |  | has control of electronic chattel paper, if the record or records | 
      
        |  | comprising the chattel paper are created, stored, and assigned in | 
      
        |  | such a manner that: | 
      
        |  | (1)  a single authoritative copy of the record or | 
      
        |  | records exists that is unique, identifiable, and, except as | 
      
        |  | otherwise provided in Subdivisions (4), (5), and (6), unalterable; | 
      
        |  | (2)  the authoritative copy identifies the secured | 
      
        |  | party as the assignee of the record or records; | 
      
        |  | (3)  the authoritative copy is communicated to and | 
      
        |  | maintained by the secured party or its designated custodian; | 
      
        |  | (4)  copies or amendments [ revisions] that add or | 
      
        |  | change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy can be made | 
      
        |  | only with the consent [ participation] of the secured party; | 
      
        |  | (5)  each copy of the authoritative copy and any copy of | 
      
        |  | a copy is readily identifiable as a copy that is not the | 
      
        |  | authoritative copy; and | 
      
        |  | (6)  any amendment [ revision] of the authoritative copy | 
      
        |  | is readily identifiable as [ an] authorized or unauthorized | 
      
        |  | [ revision]. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 3.  Section 9.307(f), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (f)  Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (i), a | 
      
        |  | registered organization that is organized under the law of the | 
      
        |  | United States and a branch or agency of a bank that is not organized | 
      
        |  | under the law of the United States or a state are located: | 
      
        |  | (1)  in the state that the law of the United States | 
      
        |  | designates, if the law designates a state of location; | 
      
        |  | (2)  in the state that the registered organization, | 
      
        |  | branch, or agency designates, if the law of the United States | 
      
        |  | authorizes the registered organization, branch, or agency to | 
      
        |  | designate its state of location, including by designating its main | 
      
        |  | office, home office, or other comparable office; or | 
      
        |  | (3)  in the District of Columbia, if neither | 
      
        |  | Subdivision (1) nor Subdivision (2) applies. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 4.  Section 9.311(a), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (a)  Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (d), the | 
      
        |  | filing of a financing statement is not necessary or effective to | 
      
        |  | perfect a security interest in property subject to: | 
      
        |  | (1)  a statute, regulation, or treaty of the United | 
      
        |  | States whose requirements for a security interest's obtaining | 
      
        |  | priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the | 
      
        |  | property preempt Section 9.310(a); | 
      
        |  | (2)  the following statutes of this state:  a | 
      
        |  | certificate of title statute of this state or rules adopted under | 
      
        |  | the statute to the extent the statute or rules provide for a | 
      
        |  | security interest to be indicated on the certificate of title as a | 
      
        |  | condition or result of perfection or such alternative to notation | 
      
        |  | as may be prescribed by those statutes or rules of this state | 
      
        |  | [ Chapter 501, Transportation Code,  relating to the certificates  | 
      
        |  | of title for motor vehicles;  Subchapter B-1, Chapter 31, Parks and  | 
      
        |  | Wildlife Code,  relating to the certificates of title for vessels  | 
      
        |  | and outboard motors;  Chapter 1201, Occupations Code, relating to  | 
      
        |  | the documents of title for manufactured homes]; or Chapter 261, | 
      
        |  | relating to utility security instruments; or | 
      
        |  | (3)  a [ certificate of title] statute of another | 
      
        |  | jurisdiction that provides for a security interest to be indicated | 
      
        |  | on a [ the] certificate of title as a condition or result of the | 
      
        |  | security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien | 
      
        |  | creditor with respect to the property. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 5.  The heading to Section 9.316, Business & | 
      
        |  | Commerce Code, is amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.316.  EFFECT OF [ CONTINUING PERFECTION OF SECURITY  | 
      
        |  | INTEREST FOLLOWING] CHANGE IN GOVERNING LAW. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 6.  Section 9.316, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended by adding Subsections (h) and (i) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (h)  The following rules apply to collateral to which a | 
      
        |  | security interest attaches within four months after the debtor | 
      
        |  | changes its location to another jurisdiction: | 
      
        |  | (1)  A financing statement filed before the change of | 
      
        |  | the debtor's location pursuant to the law of the jurisdiction | 
      
        |  | designated in Section 9.301(1) or 9.305(c) is effective to perfect | 
      
        |  | a security interest in the collateral if the financing statement | 
      
        |  | would have been effective to perfect a security interest in the | 
      
        |  | collateral if the debtor had not changed its location. | 
      
        |  | (2)  If a security interest that is perfected by a | 
      
        |  | financing statement that is effective under Subdivision (1) becomes | 
      
        |  | perfected under the law of the other jurisdiction before the | 
      
        |  | earlier of the time the financing statement would have become | 
      
        |  | ineffective under the law of the jurisdiction designated in Section | 
      
        |  | 9.301(1) or 9.305(c) or the expiration of the four-month period, it | 
      
        |  | remains perfected thereafter. If the security interest does not | 
      
        |  | become perfected under the law of the other jurisdiction before the | 
      
        |  | earlier time or event, it becomes unperfected and is deemed never to | 
      
        |  | have been perfected as against a purchaser of the collateral for | 
      
        |  | value. | 
      
        |  | (i)  If a financing statement naming an original debtor is | 
      
        |  | filed pursuant to the law of the jurisdiction designated in Section | 
      
        |  | 9.301(1) or 9.305(c) and the new debtor is located in another | 
      
        |  | jurisdiction, the following rules apply: | 
      
        |  | (1)  The financing statement is effective to perfect a | 
      
        |  | security interest in collateral in which the new debtor has or | 
      
        |  | acquires rights before or within four months after the new debtor | 
      
        |  | becomes bound under Section 9.203(d), if the financing statement | 
      
        |  | would have been effective to perfect a security interest in the | 
      
        |  | collateral if the collateral had been acquired by the original | 
      
        |  | debtor. | 
      
        |  | (2)  A security interest that is perfected by the | 
      
        |  | financing statement and that becomes perfected under the law of the | 
      
        |  | other jurisdiction before the earlier of the expiration of the | 
      
        |  | four-month period or the time the financing statement would have | 
      
        |  | become ineffective under the law of the jurisdiction designated in | 
      
        |  | Section 9.301(1) or 9.305(c) remains perfected thereafter. A | 
      
        |  | security interest that is perfected by the financing statement but | 
      
        |  | that does not become perfected under the law of the other | 
      
        |  | jurisdiction before the earlier time or event becomes unperfected | 
      
        |  | and is deemed never to have been perfected as against a purchaser of | 
      
        |  | the collateral for value. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 7.  Sections 9.317(b) and (d), Business & Commerce | 
      
        |  | Code, are amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (b)  Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (e), a buyer, | 
      
        |  | other than a secured party, of tangible chattel paper, tangible | 
      
        |  | documents, goods, instruments, or a certificated security | 
      
        |  | [ certificate] takes free of a security interest or agricultural | 
      
        |  | lien if the buyer gives value and receives delivery of the | 
      
        |  | collateral without knowledge of the security interest or | 
      
        |  | agricultural lien and before it is perfected. | 
      
        |  | (d)  A licensee of a general intangible or a buyer, other | 
      
        |  | than a secured party, of collateral [ accounts, electronic chattel  | 
      
        |  | paper, electronic documents, general intangibles, or investment  | 
      
        |  | property] other than tangible chattel paper, tangible documents, | 
      
        |  | goods, instruments, or a certificated security takes free of a | 
      
        |  | security interest if the licensee or buyer gives value without | 
      
        |  | knowledge of the security interest and before it is perfected. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 8.  Section 9.326, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.326.  PRIORITY OF SECURITY INTERESTS CREATED BY NEW | 
      
        |  | DEBTOR.  (a)  Subject to Subsection (b), a security interest that is | 
      
        |  | created by a new debtor in collateral in which the new debtor has or | 
      
        |  | acquires rights and [ that is] perfected by a filed financing | 
      
        |  | statement that would be ineffective to perfect the security | 
      
        |  | interest but for the application of Section 9.508 or of Sections | 
      
        |  | 9.508 and 9.316(i)(1) [ is effective solely under Section 9.508 in  | 
      
        |  | collateral in which a new debtor has or acquires rights] is | 
      
        |  | subordinate to a security interest in the same collateral that is | 
      
        |  | perfected other than by such a filed financing statement [ that is  | 
      
        |  | effective solely under Section 9.508]. | 
      
        |  | (b)  The other provisions of this subchapter determine the | 
      
        |  | priority among conflicting security interests in the same | 
      
        |  | collateral perfected by filed financing statements described in | 
      
        |  | Subsection (a) [ that are effective solely under Section 9.508]. | 
      
        |  | However, if the security agreements to which a new debtor became | 
      
        |  | bound as debtor were not entered into by the same original debtor, | 
      
        |  | the conflicting security interests rank according to priority in | 
      
        |  | time of the new debtor's having become bound. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 9.  Section 9.406, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended by amending Subsections (e) and (f) and adding Subsection | 
      
        |  | (k) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (e)  Subsection (d) does not apply to the sale of a payment | 
      
        |  | intangible or promissory note, other than a sale pursuant to a | 
      
        |  | disposition under Section 9.610 or an acceptance of collateral | 
      
        |  | under Section 9.620. | 
      
        |  | (f)  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 2A.303 and | 
      
        |  | 9.407, and subject to Subsections (h), [ and] (i), and (k), a rule of | 
      
        |  | law, statute, or regulation that prohibits, restricts, or requires | 
      
        |  | the consent of a government, governmental body or official, or | 
      
        |  | account debtor to the assignment or transfer of, or creation of a | 
      
        |  | security interest in, an account or chattel paper is ineffective to | 
      
        |  | the extent that the rule of law, statute, or regulation: | 
      
        |  | (1)  prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of | 
      
        |  | the government, governmental body or official, or account debtor to | 
      
        |  | the assignment or transfer of, or the creation, attachment, | 
      
        |  | perfection, or enforcement of a security interest in, the account | 
      
        |  | or chattel paper; or | 
      
        |  | (2)  provides that the assignment or transfer or the | 
      
        |  | creation, attachment, perfection, or enforcement of the security | 
      
        |  | interest may give rise to a default, breach, right of recoupment, | 
      
        |  | claim, defense, termination, right of termination, or remedy under | 
      
        |  | the account or chattel paper. | 
      
        |  | (k)  An assignment under this section is subject to Section | 
      
        |  | 466.410, Government Code. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 10.  Section 9.408(b), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (b)  Subsection (a) applies to a security interest in a | 
      
        |  | payment intangible or promissory note only if the security interest | 
      
        |  | arises out of a sale of the payment intangible or promissory note, | 
      
        |  | other than a sale pursuant to a disposition under Section 9.610 or | 
      
        |  | an acceptance of collateral under Section 9.620. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 11.  Section 9.502(c), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (c)  A record of a mortgage is effective, from the date of | 
      
        |  | recording, as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing or as | 
      
        |  | a financing statement covering as-extracted collateral or timber to | 
      
        |  | be cut only if: | 
      
        |  | (1)  the record indicates the goods or accounts that it | 
      
        |  | covers; | 
      
        |  | (2)  the goods are or are to become fixtures related to | 
      
        |  | the real property described in the record or the collateral is | 
      
        |  | related to the real property described in the record and is | 
      
        |  | as-extracted collateral or timber to be cut; | 
      
        |  | (3)  the record satisfies the requirements for a | 
      
        |  | financing statement in this section, but: | 
      
        |  | (A)  the record need not indicate [ other than an  | 
      
        |  | indication] that it is to be filed in the real property records; and | 
      
        |  | (B)  the record sufficiently provides the name of | 
      
        |  | a debtor who is an individual if it provides the individual name of | 
      
        |  | the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the debtor, | 
      
        |  | even if the debtor is an individual to whom Section 9.503(a)(4) or | 
      
        |  | (5) applies; and | 
      
        |  | (4)  the record is duly recorded. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 12.  Section 9.503, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsections | 
      
        |  | (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (a)  A financing statement sufficiently provides the name of | 
      
        |  | the debtor: | 
      
        |  | (1)  except as otherwise provided in Subdivision (3), | 
      
        |  | if the debtor is a registered organization or the collateral is held | 
      
        |  | in a trust that is a registered organization, only if the financing | 
      
        |  | statement provides the name that is stated to be the registered | 
      
        |  | organization's name [ of the debtor indicated] on the public organic | 
      
        |  | record most recently filed with or issued or enacted by [ debtor's  | 
      
        |  | formation documents that are filed of public record in] the | 
      
        |  | registered organization's [ debtor's] jurisdiction of organization | 
      
        |  | [ to create the registered organization and] that purports to state, | 
      
        |  | amend, or restate the registered organization's [ show the debtor to  | 
      
        |  | have been organized, including any amendments to those documents  | 
      
        |  | for the express purpose of amending the debtor's] name; | 
      
        |  | (2)  subject to Subsection (f), if the collateral is | 
      
        |  | being administered by the personal representative of a decedent | 
      
        |  | [ debtor is a decedent's estate], only if the financing statement | 
      
        |  | provides, as the name of the debtor, the name of the decedent and, | 
      
        |  | in a separate part of the financing statement, indicates that the | 
      
        |  | collateral is being administered by a personal representative | 
      
        |  | [ debtor is an estate]; | 
      
        |  | (3)  if the collateral [ debtor] is held in a trust that | 
      
        |  | is not a registered organization [ or a trustee acting with respect  | 
      
        |  | to property held in trust], only if the financing statement: | 
      
        |  | (A)  provides, as the name of the debtor: | 
      
        |  | (i)  if the organic record of the trust | 
      
        |  | specifies a name [ the name specified] for the trust, the name so [in  | 
      
        |  | its organic documents or, if no name is] specified; or | 
      
        |  | (ii)  if the organic record of the trust does | 
      
        |  | not specify a name for the trust, [ provides] the name of the settlor | 
      
        |  | or testator [ and additional information sufficient to distinguish  | 
      
        |  | the debtor from other trusts having one or more of the same  | 
      
        |  | settlors]; and | 
      
        |  | (B)  in a separate part of the financing | 
      
        |  | statement: | 
      
        |  | (i)  if the name is provided in accordance | 
      
        |  | with Paragraph (A)(i), indicates [ , in the debtor's name or  | 
      
        |  | otherwise,] that the collateral [debtor] is held in a trust; or | 
      
        |  | (ii)  if the name is provided in accordance | 
      
        |  | with Paragraph (A)(ii), provides additional information sufficient | 
      
        |  | to distinguish the trust from other trusts having one or more of the | 
      
        |  | same settlors or the same testator and indicates that the | 
      
        |  | collateral is held in a trust, unless the additional information so | 
      
        |  | indicates [ or is a trustee acting with respect to property held in  | 
      
        |  | trust]; | 
      
        |  | (4)  subject to Subsection (g), if the debtor is an | 
      
        |  | individual to whom this state has issued a driver's license, or, if | 
      
        |  | none, an identification card, that has not expired, only if it[ , if  | 
      
        |  | the financing statement] provides the [individual's] name of the | 
      
        |  | individual that is indicated [ shown] on the [individual's] driver's | 
      
        |  | license, or, if none, the identification card [ certificate issued  | 
      
        |  | by the individual's state of residence]; | 
      
        |  | (5)  if the debtor is an individual to whom Subdivision | 
      
        |  | (4) does not apply, if the debtor is an individual to whom a | 
      
        |  | governmental unit has issued a passport, or, if none, a consular | 
      
        |  | identification card, that has not expired, only if it provides the | 
      
        |  | name of the individual that is indicated on the passport, or, if | 
      
        |  | none, the consular identification card; | 
      
        |  | (6)  if the debtor is an individual to whom Subdivision | 
      
        |  | (4) or (5) does not apply, only if it provides the individual name | 
      
        |  | of the debtor or the surname and first personal name of the debtor; | 
      
        |  | and | 
      
        |  | (7) [ (5)]  in other cases: | 
      
        |  | (A)  if the debtor has a name, only if it [ the  | 
      
        |  | financing statement] provides the [individual or] organizational | 
      
        |  | name of the debtor; and | 
      
        |  | (B)  if the debtor does not have a name, only if it | 
      
        |  | [ the financing statement] provides the names of the partners, | 
      
        |  | members, associates, or other persons comprising the debtor, in a | 
      
        |  | manner that each name provided would be sufficient if the person | 
      
        |  | named were the debtor. | 
      
        |  | (b)  A financing statement that provides the name of the | 
      
        |  | debtor in accordance with Subsection (a) is not rendered | 
      
        |  | ineffective by the absence of: | 
      
        |  | (1)  a trade name or other name of the debtor; or | 
      
        |  | (2)  unless required under Subsection (a)(7)(B) | 
      
        |  | [ (a)(4)(B)], names of partners, members, associates, or other | 
      
        |  | persons comprising the debtor. | 
      
        |  | (f)  The name of the decedent indicated on the order | 
      
        |  | appointing the personal representative of the decedent issued by | 
      
        |  | the court having jurisdiction over the collateral is sufficient as | 
      
        |  | the "name of the decedent" under Subsection (a)(2). | 
      
        |  | (g)  If this state has issued to an individual more than one | 
      
        |  | driver's license or, if none, more than one identification card, of | 
      
        |  | a kind described in Subsection (a)(4), the driver's license or | 
      
        |  | identification card, as applicable, that was issued most recently | 
      
        |  | is the one to which Subsection (a)(4) refers. | 
      
        |  | (h)  The "name of the settlor or testator" means: | 
      
        |  | (1)  if the settlor is a registered organization, the | 
      
        |  | name of the registered organization indicated on the public organic | 
      
        |  | record filed with or issued or enacted by the registered | 
      
        |  | organization's jurisdiction of organization; or | 
      
        |  | (2)  in other cases, the name of the settlor or testator | 
      
        |  | indicated in the trust's organic record. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 13.  Section 9.507(c), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (c)  If the [ a debtor so changes its] name that a filed | 
      
        |  | financing statement provides for a debtor becomes insufficient as | 
      
        |  | the name of the debtor under Section 9.503(a) so that the financing | 
      
        |  | statement becomes seriously misleading under Section 9.506: | 
      
        |  | (1)  the financing statement is effective to perfect a | 
      
        |  | security interest in collateral acquired by the debtor before, or | 
      
        |  | within four months after, the filed financing statement becomes | 
      
        |  | seriously misleading [ change]; and | 
      
        |  | (2)  the financing statement is not effective to | 
      
        |  | perfect a security interest in collateral acquired by the debtor | 
      
        |  | more than four months after the filed financing statement becomes | 
      
        |  | seriously misleading [ change], unless an amendment to the financing | 
      
        |  | statement that renders the financing statement not seriously | 
      
        |  | misleading is filed within four months after that event [ the  | 
      
        |  | change]. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 14.  Section 9.515(f), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (f)  If a debtor is a transmitting utility and a filed | 
      
        |  | initial financing statement so indicates, the financing statement | 
      
        |  | is effective until a termination statement is filed. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 15.  Section 9.516(b), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (b)  Filing does not occur with respect to a record that a | 
      
        |  | filing office refuses to accept because: | 
      
        |  | (1)  the record is not communicated by a method or | 
      
        |  | medium of communication authorized by the filing office; | 
      
        |  | (2)  an amount equal to or greater than the applicable | 
      
        |  | filing fee is not tendered; | 
      
        |  | (3)  the filing office is unable to index the record | 
      
        |  | because: | 
      
        |  | (A)  in the case of an initial financing | 
      
        |  | statement, the record does not provide a name for the debtor; | 
      
        |  | (B)  in the case of an amendment or information | 
      
        |  | [ correction] statement, the record: | 
      
        |  | (i)  does not identify the initial financing | 
      
        |  | statement as required by Section 9.512 or 9.518, as applicable; or | 
      
        |  | (ii)  identifies an initial financing | 
      
        |  | statement whose effectiveness has lapsed under Section 9.515; | 
      
        |  | (C)  in the case of an initial financing statement | 
      
        |  | that provides the name of a debtor identified as an individual or an | 
      
        |  | amendment that provides a name of a debtor identified as an | 
      
        |  | individual that was not previously provided in the financing | 
      
        |  | statement to which the record relates, the record does not identify | 
      
        |  | the debtor's surname [ last name]; or | 
      
        |  | (D)  in the case of a record filed or recorded in | 
      
        |  | the filing office described in Section 9.501(a)(1), the record does | 
      
        |  | not provide the name of the debtor and a sufficient description of | 
      
        |  | the real property to which it relates; | 
      
        |  | (4)  in the case of an initial financing statement or an | 
      
        |  | amendment that adds a secured party of record, the record does not | 
      
        |  | provide a name and mailing address for the secured party of record; | 
      
        |  | (5)  in the case of an initial financing statement or an | 
      
        |  | amendment that provides a name of a debtor that was not previously | 
      
        |  | provided in the financing statement to which the amendment relates, | 
      
        |  | the record does not: | 
      
        |  | (A)  provide a mailing address for the debtor; | 
      
        |  | (B)  indicate whether the debtor is an individual | 
      
        |  | or an organization; or | 
      
        |  | (C)  if the financing statement indicates that the | 
      
        |  | debtor is an organization, provide: | 
      
        |  | (i)  a type of organization for the debtor; | 
      
        |  | (ii)  a jurisdiction of organization for the | 
      
        |  | debtor; or | 
      
        |  | (iii)  an organizational identification | 
      
        |  | number for the debtor or indicate that the debtor has none; | 
      
        |  | (6)  in the case of an assignment reflected in an | 
      
        |  | initial financing statement under Section 9.514(a) or an amendment | 
      
        |  | filed under Section 9.514(b), the record does not provide a name and | 
      
        |  | mailing address for the assignee; | 
      
        |  | (7)  in the case of a continuation statement, the | 
      
        |  | record is not filed within the six-month period prescribed by | 
      
        |  | Section 9.515(d); or | 
      
        |  | (8)  the record is not on an industry standard form, | 
      
        |  | including a national standard form or a form approved by the | 
      
        |  | International Association of Commercial Administrators, adopted by | 
      
        |  | rule by the secretary of state. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 16.  Section 9.518, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.518.  CLAIM CONCERNING INACCURATE OR WRONGFULLY FILED | 
      
        |  | RECORD.  (a)  Any person named as a debtor or a secured party may | 
      
        |  | file an information [ a correction] statement with respect to a | 
      
        |  | record if the person believes that the record is inaccurate or was | 
      
        |  | wrongfully filed. | 
      
        |  | (b)  An information [ A correction] statement must: | 
      
        |  | (1)  identify the record to which it relates by the file | 
      
        |  | number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the | 
      
        |  | record relates; | 
      
        |  | (2)  indicate that it is an information [ a correction] | 
      
        |  | statement; and | 
      
        |  | (3)  provide the basis for the person's belief that the | 
      
        |  | record is inaccurate and indicate the manner in which the person | 
      
        |  | believes the record should be amended to cure any inaccuracy or | 
      
        |  | provide the basis for the person's belief that the record was | 
      
        |  | wrongfully filed. | 
      
        |  | (c)  The filing of an information [ a correction] statement | 
      
        |  | does not affect the effectiveness of an initial financing statement | 
      
        |  | or other filed record. | 
      
        |  | (d)  Filing of an information [ a correction] statement is not | 
      
        |  | effective as an amendment to a filed financing statement and is not | 
      
        |  | sufficient to effect a change in the manner in which the filing | 
      
        |  | office has indexed a financing statement or information contained | 
      
        |  | in a financing statement. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 17.  Section 9.607(b), Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (b)  If necessary to enable a secured party to exercise under | 
      
        |  | Subsection (a)(3) the right of a debtor to enforce a mortgage | 
      
        |  | nonjudicially, the secured party may record in the office in which a | 
      
        |  | record of the mortgage is recorded: | 
      
        |  | (1)  a copy of the security agreement that creates or | 
      
        |  | provides for a security interest in the obligation secured by the | 
      
        |  | mortgage; and | 
      
        |  | (2)  the secured party's sworn affidavit in recordable | 
      
        |  | form stating that: | 
      
        |  | (A)  a default has occurred with respect to the | 
      
        |  | obligation secured by the mortgage; and | 
      
        |  | (B)  the secured party is entitled to enforce the | 
      
        |  | mortgage nonjudicially. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 18.  Chapter 9, Business & Commerce Code, is amended | 
      
        |  | by adding Subchapter H to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | SUBCHAPTER H. TRANSITION PROVISIONS FOR 2013 AMENDMENTS | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.801.  EFFECTIVE DATE OF AMENDMENTS.  (a)  In this | 
      
        |  | subchapter, "2013 amendments" means the amendments to this chapter | 
      
        |  | enacted by the Act of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, | 
      
        |  | that enacted this subchapter. | 
      
        |  | (b)  The 2013 amendments take effect July 1, 2013. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.802.  SAVING CLAUSE.  (a) Except as otherwise | 
      
        |  | provided in this subchapter, the 2013 amendments apply to a | 
      
        |  | transaction or lien within its scope, even if the transaction or | 
      
        |  | lien was entered into or created before July 1, 2013. | 
      
        |  | (b)  The 2013 amendments do not affect an action, case, or | 
      
        |  | proceeding commenced before July 1, 2013. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.803.  SECURITY INTEREST PERFECTED BEFORE EFFECTIVE | 
      
        |  | DATE.  (a) A security interest that is a perfected security interest | 
      
        |  | immediately before July 1, 2013, is a perfected security interest | 
      
        |  | under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, if, when the | 
      
        |  | 2013 amendments take effect, the applicable requirements for | 
      
        |  | attachment and perfection under this chapter, as amended by the | 
      
        |  | 2013 amendments, are satisfied without further action. | 
      
        |  | (b)  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.805, if, | 
      
        |  | immediately before July 1, 2013, a security interest is a perfected | 
      
        |  | security interest, but the applicable requirements for perfection | 
      
        |  | under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are not | 
      
        |  | satisfied when the 2013 amendments take effect, the security | 
      
        |  | interest remains perfected thereafter only if the applicable | 
      
        |  | requirements for perfection under this chapter, as amended by the | 
      
        |  | 2013 amendments, are satisfied within one year after the 2013 | 
      
        |  | amendments take effect. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.804.  SECURITY INTEREST UNPERFECTED BEFORE EFFECTIVE | 
      
        |  | DATE.  A security interest that is an unperfected security interest | 
      
        |  | immediately before July 1, 2013, becomes a perfected security | 
      
        |  | interest: | 
      
        |  | (1)  without further action, when the 2013 amendments | 
      
        |  | take effect if the applicable requirements for perfection under | 
      
        |  | this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are satisfied | 
      
        |  | before or at that time; or | 
      
        |  | (2)  when the applicable requirements for perfection | 
      
        |  | are satisfied if the requirements are satisfied after that time. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.805.  EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTION TAKEN BEFORE EFFECTIVE | 
      
        |  | DATE.  (a) The filing of a financing statement before the 2013 | 
      
        |  | amendments take effect is effective to perfect a security interest | 
      
        |  | to the extent the filing would satisfy the applicable requirements | 
      
        |  | for perfection under this chapter, as amended by the 2013 | 
      
        |  | amendments. | 
      
        |  | (b)  The 2013 amendments do not render ineffective an | 
      
        |  | effective financing statement that, before July 1, 2013, is filed | 
      
        |  | and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the | 
      
        |  | law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this | 
      
        |  | chapter as it existed before amendment. However, except as | 
      
        |  | otherwise provided in Subsections (c) and (d) and Section 9.806, | 
      
        |  | the financing statement ceases to be effective: | 
      
        |  | (1)  if the financing statement is filed in this state, | 
      
        |  | at the time the financing statement would have ceased to be | 
      
        |  | effective had the 2013 amendments not taken effect; or | 
      
        |  | (2)  if the financing statement is filed in another | 
      
        |  | jurisdiction, at the earlier of: | 
      
        |  | (A)  the time the financing statement would have | 
      
        |  | ceased to be effective under the law of that jurisdiction; or | 
      
        |  | (B)  June 30, 2018. | 
      
        |  | (c)  The filing of a continuation statement after the 2013 | 
      
        |  | amendments take effect does not continue the effectiveness of the | 
      
        |  | financing statement filed before July 1, 2013. However, on the | 
      
        |  | timely filing of a continuation statement after the 2013 amendments | 
      
        |  | take effect and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction | 
      
        |  | governing perfection as provided in this chapter, as amended by the | 
      
        |  | 2013 amendments, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed | 
      
        |  | in the same office in that jurisdiction before the 2013 amendments | 
      
        |  | take effect continues for the period provided by the law of that | 
      
        |  | jurisdiction. | 
      
        |  | (d)  Subsection (b)(2)(B) applies to a financing statement | 
      
        |  | that, before July 1, 2013, is filed against a transmitting utility | 
      
        |  | and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the | 
      
        |  | law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this | 
      
        |  | chapter as it existed before amendment, only to the extent that this | 
      
        |  | chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments, provides that the law of | 
      
        |  | a jurisdiction other than the jurisdiction in which the financing | 
      
        |  | statement is filed governs perfection of a security interest in | 
      
        |  | collateral covered by the financing statement. | 
      
        |  | (e)  A financing statement that includes a financing | 
      
        |  | statement filed before the 2013 amendments take effect and a | 
      
        |  | continuation statement filed after the 2013 amendments take effect | 
      
        |  | is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements | 
      
        |  | of Subchapter E, as amended by the 2013 amendments, for an initial | 
      
        |  | financing statement. A financing statement that indicates that the | 
      
        |  | debtor is a decedent's estate indicates that the collateral is | 
      
        |  | being administered by a personal representative within the meaning | 
      
        |  | of Section 9.503(a)(2), as amended by the 2013 amendments. A | 
      
        |  | financing statement that indicates that the debtor is a trust or is | 
      
        |  | a trustee acting with respect to property held in trust indicates | 
      
        |  | that the collateral is held in a trust within the meaning of Section | 
      
        |  | 9.503(a)(3), as amended by the 2013 amendments. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.806.  WHEN INITIAL FINANCING STATEMENT SUFFICES TO | 
      
        |  | CONTINUE EFFECTIVENESS OF FINANCING STATEMENT.  (a) The filing of | 
      
        |  | an initial financing statement in the office specified in Section | 
      
        |  | 9.501 continues the effectiveness of a financing statement filed | 
      
        |  | before July 1, 2013, if: | 
      
        |  | (1)  the filing of an initial financing statement in | 
      
        |  | that office would be effective to perfect a security interest under | 
      
        |  | this chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments; | 
      
        |  | (2)  the pre-effective-date financing statement was | 
      
        |  | filed in an office in another state; and | 
      
        |  | (3)  the initial financing statement satisfies | 
      
        |  | Subsection (c). | 
      
        |  | (b)  The filing of an initial financing statement under | 
      
        |  | Subsection (a) continues the effectiveness of the | 
      
        |  | pre-effective-date financing statement: | 
      
        |  | (1)  if the initial financing statement is filed before | 
      
        |  | July 1, 2013, for the period provided in unamended Section 9.515 | 
      
        |  | with respect to an initial financing statement; and | 
      
        |  | (2)  if the initial financing statement is filed after | 
      
        |  | the 2013 amendments take effect, for the period provided in Section | 
      
        |  | 9.515, as amended by the 2013 amendments, with respect to an initial | 
      
        |  | financing statement. | 
      
        |  | (c)  To be effective for purposes of Subsection (a), an | 
      
        |  | initial financing statement must: | 
      
        |  | (1)  satisfy the requirements of Subchapter E, as | 
      
        |  | amended by the 2013 amendments, for an initial financing statement; | 
      
        |  | (2)  identify the pre-effective-date financing | 
      
        |  | statement by indicating the office in which the financing statement | 
      
        |  | was filed and providing the dates of filing and file numbers, if | 
      
        |  | any, of the financing statement and of the most recent continuation | 
      
        |  | statement filed with respect to the financing statement; and | 
      
        |  | (3)  indicate that the pre-effective-date financing | 
      
        |  | statement remains effective. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.807.  AMENDMENT OF PRE-EFFECTIVE-DATE FINANCING | 
      
        |  | STATEMENT.  (a) In this section, "pre-effective-date financing | 
      
        |  | statement" means a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013. | 
      
        |  | (b)  After the 2013 amendments take effect, a person may add | 
      
        |  | or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the | 
      
        |  | effectiveness of, or otherwise amend the information provided in, a | 
      
        |  | pre-effective-date financing statement only in accordance with the | 
      
        |  | law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this | 
      
        |  | chapter, as amended by the 2013 amendments. However, the | 
      
        |  | effectiveness of a pre-effective-date financing statement also may | 
      
        |  | be terminated in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction in | 
      
        |  | which the financing statement is filed. | 
      
        |  | (c)  Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (d), if the | 
      
        |  | law of this state governs perfection of a security interest, the | 
      
        |  | information in a pre-effective-date financing statement may be | 
      
        |  | amended after the 2013 amendments take effect only if: | 
      
        |  | (1)  the pre-effective-date financing statement and an | 
      
        |  | amendment are filed in the office specified in Section 9.501; | 
      
        |  | (2)  an amendment is filed in the office specified in | 
      
        |  | Section 9.501 concurrently with, or after the filing in that office | 
      
        |  | of, an initial financing statement that satisfies Section 9.806(c); | 
      
        |  | or | 
      
        |  | (3)  an initial financing statement that provides the | 
      
        |  | information as amended and satisfies Section 9.806(c) is filed in | 
      
        |  | the office specified in Section 9.501. | 
      
        |  | (d)  If the law of this state governs perfection of a | 
      
        |  | security interest, the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date | 
      
        |  | financing statement may be continued only under Sections 9.805(c) | 
      
        |  | and (e) or Section 9.806. | 
      
        |  | (e)  Whether or not the law of this state governs perfection | 
      
        |  | of a security interest, the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date | 
      
        |  | financing statement filed in this state may be terminated after the | 
      
        |  | 2013 amendments take effect by filing a termination statement in | 
      
        |  | the office in which the pre-effective-date financing statement is | 
      
        |  | filed, unless an initial financing statement that satisfies Section | 
      
        |  | 9.806(c) has been filed in the office specified by the law of the | 
      
        |  | jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this chapter, as | 
      
        |  | amended by the 2013 amendments, as the office in which to file a | 
      
        |  | financing statement. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.808.  PERSON ENTITLED TO FILE INITIAL FINANCING | 
      
        |  | STATEMENT OR CONTINUATION STATEMENT.  A person may file an initial | 
      
        |  | financing statement or a continuation statement under this | 
      
        |  | subchapter if: | 
      
        |  | (1)  the secured party of record authorizes the filing; | 
      
        |  | and | 
      
        |  | (2)  the filing is necessary under this subchapter: | 
      
        |  | (A)  to continue the effectiveness of a financing | 
      
        |  | statement filed before July 1, 2013; or | 
      
        |  | (B)  to perfect or continue the perfection of a | 
      
        |  | security interest. | 
      
        |  | Sec. 9.809.  PRIORITY.  The 2013 amendments determine the | 
      
        |  | priority of conflicting claims to collateral. However, if the | 
      
        |  | relative priorities of the claims were established before July 1, | 
      
        |  | 2013, this chapter as it existed before amendment determines | 
      
        |  | priority. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 19.  Chapter 11, Business & Commerce Code, is | 
      
        |  | repealed. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 20.  This Act takes effect July 1, 2013. |