1-1     By:  Fraser                                           S.B. No. 1623
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     April 27, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 27, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the consideration of a trust as property liable for the
 1-9     support of a resident at a state facility for the mentally
1-10     retarded.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 593.081, Health and
1-13     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  If the resident is the beneficiary of a trust that has
1-15     an aggregate principal of $250,000 [$50,000] or less, the corpus or
1-16     income of the trust for the purposes of this subchapter is not
1-17     considered to be the property of the resident or the resident's
1-18     estate, and is not liable for the resident's support, maintenance,
1-19     and treatment regardless of the resident's age.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.
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