84R1466 CAE-D
By: Anchia H.B. No. 638
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to annuity payments to the surviving spouse of a person
wrongfully imprisoned.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 103.053, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) On the death of a person receiving annuity payments
under this section, the person's surviving spouse is entitled to
the annuity payments for the life of the surviving spouse.
SECTION 2. Section 103.154(b), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Annuity payments to a person under Section 103.151(b)
terminate on the later of the date of the person's death or the date
of the death of the person's surviving spouse. Any payments
scheduled to be paid after that date are credited to the state and
may not be paid to any other person, including the [person's
surviving spouse,] heirs, devisees, or beneficiaries under the
person's will, or to the person's estate.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an annuity of a person who dies on or after the effective date of
this Act. The annuity of a person who dies before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately
before the effective date of this Act and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.