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.