By Uher                                                H.B. No. 495
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the interlocutory appeal by the state or a political
    1-3  subdivision of the state of certain orders.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.014, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
    1-6  is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.014.  APPEAL FROM INTERLOCUTORY ORDER.  A person or
    1-8  entity may appeal from an interlocutory order of a district court,
    1-9  county court at law, or county court that:
   1-10        (1)  appoints a receiver or trustee;
   1-11        (2)  overrules a motion to vacate an order that appoints a
   1-12  receiver or trustee;
   1-13        (3)  certifies or refuses to certify a class in a suit
   1-14  brought under Rule 42 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; <or>
   1-15        (4)  grants or refuses a temporary injunction or grants or
   1-16  overrules a motion to dissolve a temporary injunction as provided
   1-17  by Chapter 65;
   1-18        (5)  denies a motion for summary judgment that is based on an
   1-19  assertion of immunity by an individual who is an officer or
   1-20  employee of the state or a political subdivision of the state; or
   1-21        (6)  denies a motion for summary judgment that is based on an
   1-22  assertion of immunity by the state or a political subdivision of
   1-23  the state to include cities, counties or any governmental unit as
    2-1  that term is defined in Chapter 101 of this code.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  This Act applies to the denial of a motion for
    2-3  summary judgment in a suit on or after the effective date of this
    2-4  Act without regard to whether the suit was commenced before, on, or
    2-5  after that date.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.