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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to personal property exempt from seizure.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 42.002(b), Property Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  Personal property, unless precluded from being
    1-7  encumbered by other law, may be encumbered by a security interest
    1-8  under Section 9.203, Business & Commerce Code, or Sections 41 and
    1-9  42, Certificate of Title Act (Article 6687-1, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-10  Statutes), or by a lien fixed by other law, and the security
   1-11  interest or lien may not be avoided on the ground that the property
   1-12  is exempt under this chapter.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.