1-1  By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1626
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 28, 1995; March 29, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to serving copies of certain court proceedings on the
    1-9  attorney general.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 37.006, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
   1-12  is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 37.006.  PARTIES.  (a)  When declaratory relief is
   1-14  sought, all persons who have or claim any interest that would be
   1-15  affected by the declaration must be made parties.  A declaration
   1-16  does not prejudice the rights of a person not a party to the
   1-17  proceeding.
   1-18        (b)  In any proceeding that involves the validity of a
   1-19  municipal ordinance or franchise, the municipality must be made a
   1-20  party and is entitled to be heard.
   1-21        (c)  In any proceeding in which a<, and if the> statute,
   1-22  ordinance, or franchise is alleged to be unconstitutional or in
   1-23  which a construction of the Texas Constitution is alleged to be
   1-24  controlling, the attorney general of the state must <also> be
   1-25  served with a copy of the proceeding and is entitled to be heard.
   1-26        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-27  applies only to a suit filed on or after that date.  A suit filed
   1-28  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it
   1-29  existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
   1-30  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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