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        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to the definition of "person" under the Uniform Commercial | 
      
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        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 1.201(b)(27), Business & Commerce Code, | 
      
        |  | is amended to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (27)  "Person" means an individual, corporation, | 
      
        |  | business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability | 
      
        |  | company, association, joint venture, government, governmental | 
      
        |  | subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, [ or] | 
      
        |  | any other legal or commercial entity, or a particular series of a | 
      
        |  | for-profit entity. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | 
      
        |  | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | 
      
        |  | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this | 
      
        |  | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | 
      
        |  | Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1077 passed the Senate on | 
      
        |  | April 9, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
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        |  | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1077 passed the House on | 
      
        |  | May 12, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two | 
      
        |  | present not voting. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | Approved: | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
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        |  | Governor |