1-1     By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1745
 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 22, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Harris
 1-7           Amend S.B. No. 1745, as introduced, by adding the following
 1-8     language to line 20.  Between the words "account" and ", together"
 1-9     insert "on the date of service"
1-10                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-11                                   AN ACT
1-12     relating to garnishment of an account.
1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14           SECTION 1.  Chapter 63, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is
1-15     amended by adding Section 63.007 to read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 63.007.  GARNISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.  In an action in which
1-17     the garnishee is a bank, savings and loan association, credit
1-18     union, or securities brokerage firm, the amount of any judgment
1-19     entered against the garnishee shall not exceed the total value of
1-20     the assets located in the account, together with any amounts added
1-21     to the account through the date of the judgment.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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