By Wentworth                                    S.B. No. 1098

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to exempting certain support payments from seizure.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 42.001(b), Property Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The following personal property is exempt from seizure

 1-7     and is not included in the aggregate limitations prescribed by

 1-8     Subsection (a):

 1-9                 (1)  current wages for personal services, except for

1-10     the enforcement of court-ordered child support payments;

1-11                 (2)  professionally prescribed health aids of a debtor

1-12     or a dependent of a debtor; and

1-13                 (3)  alimony, support, or separate maintenance for the

1-14     support of the debtor and any dependent of the debtor.

1-15           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-16           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to

1-17     alimony, support, or separate maintenance for support of the debtor

1-18     and any dependent of the debtor received on or after September 1,

1-19     1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.