Bill Text: TX HB3170 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the exemption of certain personal property from garnishment, attachment, execution, or other seizure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3170 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3170-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Leach | H.B. No. 3170 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3170: | |||
| By: Leach | C.S.H.B. No. 3170 | ||
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| relating to the exemption of certain personal property from | ||
| garnishment, attachment, execution, or other seizure. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.002(a), Property Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) The following personal property is exempt under Section | ||
| 42.001(a): | ||
| (1) home furnishings, including family heirlooms; | ||
| (2) provisions for consumption; | ||
| (3) farming or ranching vehicles and implements; | ||
| (4) tools, equipment, books, and apparatus, including | ||
| boats and motor vehicles used by a member of a family or single | ||
| adult in that person's [ |
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| (5) wearing apparel; | ||
| (6) jewelry not to exceed 25 percent of the aggregate | ||
| limitations prescribed by Section 42.001(a); | ||
| (7) two firearms; | ||
| (8) athletic and sporting equipment, including | ||
| bicycles; | ||
| (9) a two-wheeled, three-wheeled, or four-wheeled | ||
| motor vehicle for each member of a family or single adult who holds | ||
| a driver's license or who does not hold a driver's license but who | ||
| relies on another person to operate the vehicle for the benefit of | ||
| the nonlicensed person, provided that the vehicle is not: | ||
| (A) an autocycle as defined by Section 502.005, | ||
| Transportation Code; | ||
| (B) a golf cart as defined by Section 551.401, | ||
| Transportation Code; | ||
| (C) a recreational off-highway vehicle as | ||
| defined by Section 551A.001, Transportation Code; or | ||
| (D) an assembled motor vehicle as defined by | ||
| Section 731.001, Transportation Code; | ||
| (10) the following animals and forage on hand for | ||
| their consumption: | ||
| (A) two horses, mules, or donkeys and a saddle, | ||
| blanket, and bridle for each; | ||
| (B) 12 head of cattle; | ||
| (C) 60 head of other types of livestock; and | ||
| (D) 120 fowl; and | ||
| (11) household pets. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made this Act do not apply to | ||
| property that is, as of the effective date of this Act, subject to a | ||
| voluntary bankruptcy proceeding or to a valid claim of a holder of a | ||
| final judgment who has, by levy, garnishment, or other legal | ||
| process, obtained rights superior to those that would otherwise be | ||
| held by a trustee in bankruptcy if a bankruptcy petition were then | ||
| pending against the debtor. That property is subject to the law as | ||
| it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and | ||
| the prior law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
