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Exemption: Health aids necessary to enable work; prosthetic and orthopedic appliances

Citation: Stat. - Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 703.150

(amounts adjusted each year)
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Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 703.150 :
703.150. (a) On April 1, 2004, and at each three-year interval ending on April 1 thereafter, the dollar amounts of exemptions provided in subdivision (b) of Section 703.140 in effect immediately before that date shall be adjusted as provided in subdivision (d).

(b) On April 1, 2007, and at each three-year interval ending on April 1 thereafter, the dollar amounts of exemptions provided in Article 3 (commencing with Section 704.010) in effect immediately before that date shall be adjusted as provided in subdivision (d).

(c) On April 1, 2013, and at each three-year interval ending on April 1 thereafter, the Judicial Council shall submit to the Legislature the amount by which the dollar amounts of exemptions provided in subdivision (a) of Section 704.730 in effect immediately before that date may be increased as provided in subdivision (d). Those increases shall not take effect unless they are approved by the Legislature.

(d) The Judicial Council shall determine the amount of the adjustment based on the change in the annual California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, published by the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Statistics, for the most recent three-year period ending on December 31 preceding the adjustment, with each adjusted amount rounded to the nearest twenty-five dollars ($25).

(e) Beginning April 1, 2004, the Judicial Council shall publish a list of the current dollar amounts of exemptions provided in subdivision (b) of Section 703.140 and in Article 3 (commencing with Section 704.010), together with the date of the next scheduled adjustment. In any year that the Legislature votes to increase the exemptions provided in subdivision (a) of Section 704.730, the Judicial Council shall publish a list of current dollar amounts of exemptions.

(f) Adjustments made under subdivision (a) do not apply with respect to cases commenced before the date of the adjustment, subject to any contrary rule applicable under the federal Bankruptcy Code. The applicability of adjustments made under subdivisions (b) and (c) is governed by Section 703.050.
Last Amended: 2010
2012
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 678, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2013.)
(Added by Stats.2003, c. 379 (A.B.182), s 4. Amended by Stats.2009, c. 499 (A.B.1046), s 1.)
Amended by 2010 CHAPTER 212
s 1 A.B. No. 2767
2010 Electronic Update 2009 Legislation

Stats.2009, c. 499 (A.B.1046), in subds. (a) and (b), substituted "(d)" for "(c)"; added subd. (c); redesignated former subds. (c) to (e) as (d) to (f); in redesignated subd. (e), added the second sentence; and in redesignated subd. (f), in the second sentence, substituted "subdivisions (b) and (c)" for "subdivision (b)".
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