1-1 By: Junell (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 2370
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
1-3 May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to revival of a dormant judgment.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 31.006, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-11 is amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 31.006. Revival of Judgment. A dormant <If execution
1-13 has not issued within 12 months after the date of the rendition of
1-14 a judgment in a court of record, the> judgment may be revived by
1-15 scire facias or by an action of debt brought not later than the
1-16 second anniversary of <10 years after> the date that <of the
1-17 rendition of> the judgment becomes dormant.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-19 applies only to an action to revive a judgment brought on or after
1-20 December 1, 1996. An action brought before December 1, 1996, is
1-21 governed by the law in effect at the time the action was brought,
1-22 and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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