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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.
Buyers learn the choice exists and that it goes either direction.
The bill requires every sales purchase contract for a manufactured home to include a disclosure about the buyer's option to treat the home as real property or personal property. The disclosure must explain the conditions for making that choice, what the choice does, that it is made on the statement of ownership application, and that it can go either direction. It touches manufactured home retailers and buyers, and it applies to contracts first signed by a retailer on or after September 1, 2025.
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Labels: CROSS-PARTY HANDOFF. Lead author Molly Cook (D) in the Senate. Lead sponsor Keith Bell (R) in the House. Party as the Legislative Reference Library lists it for the 89th Legislature.GOT HALFWAY. Passed the Senate on May 12, 2025. Died in the House: voted out of the Intergovernmental Affairs committee 11-0, no floor vote.
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 IT DOES
Buyers learn the choice exists and that it goes either direction.
The bill requires every sales purchase contract for a manufactured home to include a disclosure about the buyer's option to treat the home as real property or personal property. The disclosure must explain the conditions for making that choice, what the choice does, that it is made on the statement of ownership application, and that it can go either direction. It touches manufactured home retailers and buyers, and it applies to contracts first signed by a retailer on or after September 1, 2025.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed for yea. Only the named positions are included in member records.
Sources
Senator Cook moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 2764 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 30 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: 1 (derived from named list)
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
House committee · Intergovernmental Affairs · Committee vote 11 aye, 0 nay · Out of committee
Senate committee · Local Government · Committee vote 7 aye, 0 nay · Out of committee
Subjects
Housing--Manufactured Housing
Property Interests--Personal Property
Property Interests--Real Property
Text
The text as introduced · 263 words
89R15017 JAM-D
By: Cook
S.B. No. 2764
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 1201.164, Occupations Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) A sales purchase contract must include a disclosure
regarding a purchaser's ability to elect to treat a manufactured
home as real property or personal property. The disclosure
required under this subsection 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 1201.164(c), Occupations Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to a sales purchase contract that is first
signed by a retailer on or after the effective date of this Act. A
sales purchase contract that is first signed by a retailer 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.
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