By Place H.B. No. 1828 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.