By:  Smithee                                          H.B. No. 1028
       73R1863 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to interlocutory appeal of an order compelling arbitration
    1-3  under federal law.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section A, Article 238-2, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. A.  An appeal may be taken from:
    1-8              (1)  An order denying an application to compel
    1-9  arbitration made under Section A of Article 225 or under 9 U.S.C.
   1-10  Section 4;
   1-11              (2)  An order granting an application to stay
   1-12  arbitration made under Section B of Article 225;
   1-13              (3)  An order confirming or denying confirmation of an
   1-14  award;
   1-15              (4)  An order modifying or correcting an award;
   1-16              (5)  An order vacating an award without directing a
   1-17  rehearing; or
   1-18              (6)  A judgment or decree entered pursuant to the
   1-19  provisions of this Act.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-21  applies only to a suit that is commenced on or after that date.  A
   1-22  suit that is commenced before the effective date of this Act is
   1-23  governed by the law in effect at the time the suit is commenced,
   1-24  and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.