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CS/CS/SB 1146: Effect of Dissolution or Annulment of Marriage on Certain Designations

GENERAL BILL by Budget Subcommittee on General Government Appropriations ; Judiciary ; Simmons

Effect of Dissolution or Annulment of Marriage on Certain Designations; Providing that a designation made by or on behalf of a decedent providing for the payment or transfer at death of an interest in an asset to or for the benefit of the decedent’s former spouse shall become void if the decedent’s marriage was judicially dissolved or declared invalid before the decedent’s death, if the designation was made prior to the dissolution or order; providing that payors are not liable for payments or transfers to beneficiaries contrary to this provision in certain circumstances; providing that certain provisions apply notwithstanding the payor’s knowledge that the person to whom the asset is transferred is different from the person who would own the interest due to the dissolution of the decedent’s marriage or declaration of the marriage’s validity before the decedent’s death, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2012
Last Action: 3/8/2012 Senate - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 401 (Ch. 2012-148) -SJ 1001
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Judiciary (JU)
  2. Budget Subcommittee on General Government Appropriations (BGA)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
12/5/2011 Senate • Filed
1/10/2012 Senate • Referred to Judiciary; Budget -SJ 93
• Introduced -SJ 93
1/20/2012 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/25/12, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Office Building
1/25/2012 Senate • CS by Judiciary; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 -SJ 280
1/26/2012 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
1/27/2012 Senate • CS by Judiciary read 1st time -SJ 287
1/31/2012 Senate • Now in Budget -SJ 280
• Subreferred to Budget Subcommittee on General Government Appropriations -SJ 303
• Now in Budget Subcommittee on General Government Appropriations
2/23/2012 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Budget Subcommittee on General Government Appropriations, 02/28/12, 10:45 am, 401 Senate Office Building
2/28/2012 Senate • CS/CS by Budget Subcommittee on General Government Appropriations; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 -SJ 743
3/1/2012 Senate • Now in Budget -SJ 743
• CS/CS by Budget Subcommittee on General Government Appropriations read 1st time -SJ 750
3/6/2012 Senate • Withdrawn from Budget -SJ 874
• Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading -SJ 874
• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/08/12
3/8/2012 Senate • Read 2nd time -SJ 1001
• Substituted CS/HB 401 -SJ 1001
• Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 401 (Ch. 2012-148) -SJ 1001