H.B. No. 2370
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to revival of a dormant judgment.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 31.006, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 31.006.  Revival of Judgment.  A dormant <If execution
    1-7  has not issued within 12 months after the date of the rendition of
    1-8  a judgment in a court of record, the> judgment may be revived by
    1-9  scire facias or by an action of debt brought not later than the
   1-10  second anniversary of <10 years after> the date that <of the
   1-11  rendition of> the judgment becomes dormant.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-13  applies only to an action to revive a judgment brought on or after
   1-14  December 1, 1996.  An action brought before December 1, 1996, is
   1-15  governed by the law in effect at the time the action was brought,
   1-16  and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.