By Williams                                           H.B. No. 1373
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to allocation of principal and income in certain trusts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 113, Property Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 113.1021 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 113.1021.  ALLOCATION OF PRINCIPAL AND INCOME IN CERTAIN
 1-7     TRUSTS.  (a)  Unless otherwise provided by the trust instrument, an
 1-8     increase in the value of the following obligations over the value
 1-9     at the time the obligation was acquired by the trust is income:
1-10                 (1)  a deferred annuity before annuitization; and
1-11                 (2)  a life insurance contract before the death of the
1-12     insured.
1-13           (b)  For purposes of this section and unless otherwise
1-14     provided by the trust instrument, the increase in value of an
1-15     obligation described by Subsection (a) is available for
1-16     distribution only when the trustee receives cash on account of the
1-17     obligation.  If the obligation is surrendered or partially
1-18     liquidated, the cash received must be attributed first to the
1-19     increase.  Notwithstanding Section 113.103, the increase in the
1-20     value of the obligation is available for distribution to the income
1-21     beneficiary who is the income beneficiary when the cash is received
1-22     and, if different, not to the income beneficiary who was the income
1-23     beneficiary at the time the income accrued.
1-24           (c)  Section 113.109 applies to the allocation of principal
 2-1     and income for a deferred annuity after annuitization.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to
 2-4     principal and income subject to allocation on or after September 1,
 2-5     1999.  Principal and income subject to allocation before September
 2-6     1, 1999, is governed by the law in effect immediately before that
 2-7     date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.