By Duncan H.B. No. 2916
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the application of the doctrine of forum non
1-3 conveniens.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 71.051(c), Civil Practice and Remedies
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A <No> stay or dismissal may <shall> be granted under
1-8 Subsection (b) if the moving defendant files <until all properly
1-9 joined defendants file> with the clerk of the court a written
1-10 stipulation that the <each> defendant will:
1-11 (1) submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts
1-12 of the other forum; and
1-13 (2) waive any defense based on the statute of
1-14 limitations applicable in the other forum with respect to all
1-15 causes of actions brought by a party to which this section applies.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1995. It
1-17 applies to all causes of action filed on or after that date and to
1-18 all causes of actions pending on that date for which the trial has
1-19 not commenced.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.