Bill Text: TX HB1499 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the comptroller to release a reported owner's unclaimed property to the owner's crime victim in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1499 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1499-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the comptroller to release a reported owner's unclaimed property to the owner's crime victim in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1499 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1499-Introduced.html
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By: Metcalf | H.B. No. 1499 |
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relating to authorizing the comptroller to release a reported | ||
owner's unclaimed property to the owner's crime victim in certain | ||
circumstances. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 74.501, Property Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (g) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(e) Except as provided by Subsections [ |
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(g), the comptroller may not pay to the following persons a claim to | ||
which this section applies: | ||
(1) a creditor, a judgment creditor, a lienholder, or | ||
an assignee of the reported owner or of the owner's heirs; or | ||
(2) a person holding a power of attorney from the | ||
reported owner or the owner's heirs. | ||
(g) The comptroller may approve a claim for unclaimed | ||
property submitted by a claimant who was a victim of a criminal | ||
offense for which the reported owner of the unclaimed property was | ||
finally convicted if on the date the claim is submitted: | ||
(1) the claimant is entitled to payment from the | ||
reported owner under: | ||
(A) a final judgment against the reported owner | ||
related to that criminal offense; or | ||
(B) a final order of restitution under Article | ||
42.037, Code of Criminal Procedure, related to that criminal | ||
offense; and | ||
(2) the reported owner is incarcerated in federal | ||
custody or the custody of this or any state based on any final | ||
criminal conviction. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a claim filed under Section 74.501, Property Code, on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. A claim filed under that section | ||
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |