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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