SB2764 • 2025

Relating to information provided to a purchaser of a manufactured home regarding the ability to elect to treat the home as real property or personal property.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Cook
Last action: 2025-05-27
Official status: 05/27/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to information provided to a purchaser of a manufactured home regarding the ability to elect to treat the home as real property or personal property.

What This Bill Does

Relating to information provided to a purchaser of a manufactured home regarding the ability to elect to treat the home as real property or personal property.

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Bill History

2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Co-author authorized
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Three day rule suspended
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the Senate
2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on intent calendar
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken in committee
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Local Government
2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to information provided to a purchaser of a manufactured home regarding the ability to elect to treat the home as real property or personal property.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SB 2764 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R28241 JAM-D

By: Cook, et al.

S.B. No. 2764

(Bell of Kaufman)

Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2764:
No.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to information provided to a purchaser of a manufactured

home regarding the ability to elect to treat the home as real

property or personal property.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 1201.162, Occupations Code, is amended

by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as

follows:

(a) Before the completion of a credit application or more

than one day before entering into any agreement for a sale or

exchange that will not be financed, the retailer must provide to the

consumer a written disclosure in the form promulgated by the board.

The disclosure shall be in at least 12-point type and must
:

(1)
address
:

(A)
matters of concern relating to costs and

obligations that may be associated with home ownership
;

(B)
[
,
] matters to be considered in making

financing decisions
;

(C)
[
,
] related costs that may arise when

purchasing a manufactured home
;

(D)

a purchaser's ability to elect to treat a

manufactured home as real property or personal property;
[
,
] and

(E) any
[
such
] other matters as the board may

consider
[
deem
] appropriate to promote informed purchase,

financing, and related decisions regarding the acquisition and

ownership of a manufactured home
; and

(2)
[
. The form shall also
] conspicuously disclose

the consumer's right of rescission.

(d)

The disclosure required under Subsection (a)(1)(D) must

explain:

(1)

the conditions required under Section

1201.2055(a) for an owner to elect to treat a manufactured home as

real property;

(2)

the effects of electing to treat a home as real

property;

(3)

that the election must be made on the application

for the issuance of a statement of ownership; and

(4)

that the election may be made to convert the home

from personal property to real property or from real property to

personal property.

SECTION 2. Section 1201.162, Occupations Code, as amended

by this Act, applies only to a disclosure that is provided to a

consumer on or after the effective date of this Act. A disclosure

provided to a consumer 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, 2025.