88R10719 KBB-F
By: Morales of Maverick H.B. No. 3113
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a business to file electronic
documents with a county clerk that accepts electronic filing.
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;
(3) [(4)] a person licensed to make regulated loans in
this state;
(4) [(5) a title insurance company or title insurance
agent licensed to do business in this state;
[(6)] an agency of this state;
(5) [or
[(7)] a municipal clerk; or
(6) a business, including:
(A) a bank, savings and loan association, savings
bank, or credit union doing business under laws of the United States
or this state;
(B) a title insurance company or title insurance
agent licensed to do business in this state; and
(C) a utility, including a nonprofit utility
corporation or cooperative.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
electronic documents filed on or after the effective date of this
Act. Electronic documents filed before the effective date of this
Act are governed by the law in effect on the date the document was
filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.