Bill Text: TX SB1640 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to requiring witnesses to sign an instrument conveying real property interest.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-24 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1640 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB1640-Introduced.html
  87R12328 MWC-D
 
  By: Miles S.B. No. 1640
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring witnesses to sign an instrument conveying
  real property interest.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Property Code, is
  amended by adding Section 5.0025 to read as follows:
         Sec. 5.0025.  WITNESSES TO CONVEYANCE REQUIRED. An
  instrument intended as a conveyance of real property or an interest
  in real property is invalid unless the instrument is attested by two
  or more credible witnesses who are at least 14 years of age and who
  subscribe their names to the instrument in their own handwriting in
  the grantor's presence.
         SECTION 2.  Section 5.0025, Property Code, as added by this
  Act, applies only to an instrument executed on or after the
  effective date of this Act. An instrument executed before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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