1-1  By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1119
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 15, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
    1-4  April 12, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 1; April 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the application of the doctrine of forum non
    1-9  conveniens.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 71.051, Civil Practice
   1-12  and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (c)  A <No> stay or dismissal may <shall> be granted under
   1-14  Subsection (b) if the moving defendant files <until all properly
   1-15  joined defendants file> with the clerk of the court a written
   1-16  stipulation that the <each> defendant will:
   1-17              (1)  submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts
   1-18  of the other forum; and
   1-19              (2)  waive any defense based on the statute of
   1-20  limitations applicable in the other forum with respect to all
   1-21  causes of action brought by a party to which this section applies.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1995.  It
   1-23  applies to all causes of action filed on or after that date and to
   1-24  all causes of actions pending on that date for which the trial has
   1-25  not commenced.
   1-26        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-27  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-28  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-29  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-30  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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