75R11050 DLF-D By Dunnam H.B. No. 1425 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1425: By Hilbert C.S.H.B. No. 1425 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to appeal of certain court orders and judgments relating 1-3 to arbitration. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 171.017, Civil Practice and Remedies 1-6 Code, is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an order issued or 1-8 judgment entered by a court on or after the effective date of this 1-9 Act. An order issued or judgment entered before the effective date 1-10 of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before 1-11 the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect 1-12 for that purpose. 1-13 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.