Section 1.015 - Residence(a) In this code, "residence" means domicile, that is, one's home and fixed place of habitation to which one intends to return after any temporary absence.(b) A person may not establish residence for the purpose of influencing the outcome of a certain election.(c) A person does not lose the person's residence by leaving the person's home to go to another place for temporary purposes only.(d) A person does not acquire a residence in a place to which the person has come for temporary purposes only and without the intention of making that place the person's home.(e) A person who is an inmate in a penal institution or who is an involuntary inmate in a hospital or eleemosynary institution does not, while an inmate, acquire residence at the place where the institution is located.(f) A person may not establish a residence at any place the person has not inhabited. A person may not designate a previous residence as a home and fixed place of habitation unless the person inhabits the place at the time of designation and intends to remain.Amended by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 869,Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2021.Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 864, Sec. 4, eff. 9/1/1997. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. 1/1/1986.