By Dunnam H.B. No. 1805
76R1573 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the exemption of insurance benefits from garnishment,
1-3 attachment, execution, or other seizure.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 42.002(a), Property Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The following personal property is exempt under Section
1-8 42.001(a):
1-9 (1) home furnishings, including family heirlooms;
1-10 (2) provisions for consumption;
1-11 (3) farming or ranching vehicles and implements;
1-12 (4) tools, equipment, books, and apparatus, including
1-13 boats and motor vehicles used in a trade or profession;
1-14 (5) wearing apparel;
1-15 (6) jewelry not to exceed 25 percent of the aggregate
1-16 limitations prescribed by Section 42.001(a);
1-17 (7) two firearms;
1-18 (8) athletic and sporting equipment, including
1-19 bicycles;
1-20 (9) a two-wheeled, three-wheeled, or four-wheeled
1-21 motor vehicle for each member of a family or single adult who holds
1-22 a driver's license or who does not hold a driver's license but who
1-23 relies on another person to operate the vehicle for the benefit of
1-24 the nonlicensed person;
2-1 (10) the following animals and forage on hand for
2-2 their consumption:
2-3 (A) two horses, mules, or donkeys and a saddle,
2-4 blanket, and bridle for each;
2-5 (B) 12 head of cattle;
2-6 (C) 60 head of other types of livestock; and
2-7 (D) 120 fowl; and
2-8 (11) household pets[; and]
2-9 [(12) the present value of any life insurance policy
2-10 to the extent that a member of the family of the insured or a
2-11 dependent of a single insured adult claiming the exemption is a
2-12 beneficiary of the policy].
2-13 SECTION 2. Section 7, Article 21.22, Insurance Code, is
2-14 repealed.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.