1-1 By: Place (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 1828
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 1993;
1-3 April 13, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 4, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 4, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to personal property exempt from seizure.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Section 42.002(b), Property Code, is amended to
1-20 read as follows:
1-21 (b) Personal property, unless precluded from being
1-22 encumbered by other law, may be encumbered by a security interest
1-23 under Section 9.203, Business & Commerce Code, or Sections 41 and
1-24 42, Certificate of Title Act (Article 6687-1, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-25 Statutes), or by a lien fixed by other law, and the security
1-26 interest or lien may not be avoided on the ground that the property
1-27 is exempt under this chapter.
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-35 * * * * *
1-36 Austin,
1-37 Texas
1-38 May 4, 1993
1-39 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-40 President of the Senate
1-41 Sir:
1-42 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
1-43 No. 1828, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-44 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-45 that it do pass and be printed.
1-46 Henderson,
1-47 Chairman
1-48 * * * * *
1-49 WITNESSES
1-50 FOR AGAINST ON
1-51 ___________________________________________________________________
1-52 Name: Laura Smreker x
1-53 Representing: Tx Banker's Association
1-54 City: Austin
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1-56 FOR AGAINST ON
1-57 ___________________________________________________________________
1-58 Name: Jeff Huffman x
1-59 Representing: Tx Credit Union League
1-60 City: Farmer's Branch
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