By:  Fraser                                           S.B. No. 1623
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the consideration of a trust as property liable for the
 1-2     support of a resident at at 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.  Section 593.081(a), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     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.