Bill Text: TX SB2364 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the collection of certain judgments through court proceeding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2364 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2364-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the collection of certain judgments through court proceeding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2364 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2364-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hughes | S.B. No. 2364 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 17, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 2019, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2364 | By: Nelson |
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relating to the collection of certain judgments through court | ||
proceeding. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 31.002(a), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A judgment creditor is entitled to aid from a court of | ||
appropriate jurisdiction, including a justice court, through | ||
injunction or other means in order to reach property to obtain | ||
satisfaction on the judgment if the judgment debtor owns property, | ||
including present or future rights to property, that is not exempt | ||
from attachment, execution, or seizure for the satisfaction of | ||
liabilities. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to the | ||
collection of any judgment, regardless of whether the judgment was | ||
entered before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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