By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1240
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to mediated settlement agreements.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 154.071, Civil Practice and Remedies
    1-4  Code, is amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        (d)  A mediated settlement agreement is subject to revocation
    1-7  by a party before rendition of judgment, unless:
    1-8              (1)  the settlement agreement specifically states that
    1-9  the agreement is not subject to revocation; and
   1-10              (2)  the settlement agreement is signed by an attorney
   1-11  for the party.
   1-12        (e)  If a mediated settlement agreement meets the
   1-13  requirements of Subsection (d), a party is entitled to judgment on
   1-14  the mediated settlement agreement.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.