By Hunter of Nueces                                   H.B. No. 2223
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to appeals from interlocutory orders of a district court,
    1-3  county court at law, or county court.
    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)  A person
    1-8  may appeal from an interlocutory order of a district court, county
    1-9  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
   1-12  appoints a 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;
   1-15              (4)  grants or refuses a temporary injunction or grants
   1-16  or overrules a motion to dissolve a temporary injunction as
   1-17  provided by Chapter 65;
   1-18              (5)  denies a motion for summary judgment that is based
   1-19  on an 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
   1-22  in whole or in part upon a claim against or defense by a member of
   1-23  the electronic or print media, acting in such capacity, or a person
    2-1  whose communication appears in or is published by the electronic or
    2-2  print media, arising under the free speech or free press clause of
    2-3  the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, or Article
    2-4  1, Section 8, of the Texas Constitution, or Chapter 73; or
    2-5              (7)  or denies a plea to the jurisdiction by a
    2-6  governmental unit as that term is defined in Section 101.001 of
    2-7  this code.
    2-8        (b)  An interlocutory appeal based on Subdivision (7),
    2-9  Subsection (a) of this section shall have the effect of staying all
   2-10  proceedings in the trial court pending resolution of the appeal.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to the appeal of an
   2-12  interlocutory order from a court if the order was rendered on or
   2-13  after the effective date of this Act.  An interlocutory order
   2-14  rendered before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
   2-15  law in effect at the time the order was rendered and that law is
   2-16  continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-18        SECTION 4.  SEVERABILITY.  If any section, sentence, clause,
   2-19  or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such
   2-20  invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and
   2-21  it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to
   2-22  have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of
   2-23  the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be
   2-24  declared invalid.
   2-25        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    3-1  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.