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.