AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the consideration of a trust as property liable for the
 1-2     support of a resident at a state facility for the mentally
 1-3     retarded.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 593.081, Health and
 1-6     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  If the resident is the beneficiary of a trust that has
 1-8     an aggregate principal of $250,000 [$50,000] or less, the corpus or
 1-9     income of the trust for the purposes of this subchapter is not
1-10     considered to be the property of the resident or the resident's
1-11     estate, and is not liable for the resident's support, maintenance,
1-12     and treatment regardless of the resident's age.
1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1623 passed the Senate on
         May 6, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1623 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor