By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1098 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to exempting certain support payments from seizure. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 42.001, Property Code, is 1-4 amended to read as follows: 1-5 (b) The following personal property is exempt from seizure 1-6 and is not included in the aggregate limitations prescribed by 1-7 Subsection (a): 1-8 (1) current wages for personal services, except for 1-9 the enforcement of court-ordered child support payments; 1-10 (2) professionally prescribed health aids of a debtor 1-11 or a dependent of a debtor; and 1-12 (3) alimony, support, or separate maintenance for the 1-13 support of the debtor and any dependent of the debtor. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to 1-16 alimony, support, or separate maintenance for support of the debtor 1-17 and any dependent of the debtor received on or after September 1, 1-18 1997. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.