1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1098 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1997; March 12, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 April 9, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, 1-5 Nays 0; April 9, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to exempting certain support payments from seizure. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 42.001, Property Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 (b) The following personal property is exempt from seizure 1-13 and is not included in the aggregate limitations prescribed by 1-14 Subsection (a): 1-15 (1) current wages for personal services, except for 1-16 the enforcement of court-ordered child support payments; 1-17 (2) professionally prescribed health aids of a debtor 1-18 or a dependent of a debtor; and 1-19 (3) alimony, support, or separate maintenance for the 1-20 support of the debtor and any dependent of the debtor. 1-21 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-22 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to 1-23 alimony, support, or separate maintenance for support of the debtor 1-24 and any dependent of the debtor received on or after September 1, 1-25 1997. 1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-31 * * * * *