Bill Text: TX HB3777 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to priority of payment for certain electrical service claims against the estates of certain decedents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3777 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3777-Introduced.html
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By: Krause | H.B. No. 3777 |
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relating to priority of payment for certain electrical service | ||
claims against the estates of certain decedents. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 355.102(b), Estates Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) Class 1 claims are composed of funeral expenses and | ||
expenses of the decedent's last illness, including claims for the | ||
cost of electrical service provided to the decedent if the decedent | ||
had been designated as a critical care residential customer, for a | ||
reasonable amount approved by the court, not to exceed a total of | ||
$15,000. Any excess shall be classified and paid as other unsecured | ||
claims. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 355.103, Estates Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 355.103. PRIORITY OF CERTAIN PAYMENTS. When a | ||
personal representative has estate funds in the representative's | ||
possession, the representative shall pay in the following order: | ||
(1) funeral expenses and expenses of the decedent's | ||
last illness, including claims for the cost of electrical service | ||
provided to the decedent if the decedent had been designated as a | ||
critical care residential customer, in an amount not to exceed | ||
$15,000; | ||
(2) allowances made to the decedent's surviving spouse | ||
and children, or to either the surviving spouse or children; | ||
(3) expenses of administration and expenses incurred | ||
in preserving, safekeeping, and managing the estate; and | ||
(4) other claims against the estate in the order of the | ||
claims' classifications. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 355.102(b) and 355.103, Estates Code, | ||
as amended by this Act, apply only to the estate of a decedent who | ||
dies on or after the effective date of this Act. The estate of a | ||
decedent who dies before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law in effect on the date of the decedent's death, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |