Bill Text: TX SB1437 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain persons to file documents electronically for recording with a county clerk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1437 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1437-Introduced.html

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83R11729 NC-F
By: Paxton S.B. No. 1437

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing a municipal clerk to file documents
electronically for recording with a county clerk.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 195.003(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The following persons may file electronic documents or
other documents electronically for recording with a county clerk
that accepts electronic filing and recording under this chapter:
(1) an attorney licensed in this state;
(2) a bank, savings and loan association, savings
bank, or credit union doing business under laws of the United States
or this state;
(3) a federally chartered lending institution, a
federal government-sponsored entity, an instrumentality of the
federal government, or a person approved as a mortgagee by the
United States to make federally insured loans;
(4) a person licensed to make regulated loans in this
state;
(5) a title insurance company or title insurance agent
licensed to do business in this state; [or]
(6) an agency of this state; or
(7) a municipal clerk.
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, 2013.