By Dunnam H.B. No. 1425
75R6222 DLF-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to interlocutory appeal of certain court orders relating
1-3 to arbitration.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.014, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 51.014. APPEAL FROM INTERLOCUTORY ORDER. A person may
1-8 appeal from an interlocutory order of a district court, county
1-9 court at law, or county court that:
1-10 (1) appoints a receiver or trustee;
1-11 (2) overrules a motion to vacate an order that
1-12 appoints a receiver or trustee;
1-13 (3) certifies or refuses to certify a class in a suit
1-14 brought under Rule 42 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure;
1-15 (4) grants or refuses a temporary injunction or grants
1-16 or overrules a motion to dissolve a temporary injunction as
1-17 provided by Chapter 65;
1-18 (5) denies a motion for summary judgment that is based
1-19 on an assertion of immunity by an individual who is an officer or
1-20 employee of the state or a political subdivision of the state; [or]
1-21 (6) denies a motion for summary judgment that is based
1-22 in whole or in part upon a claim against or defense by a member of
1-23 the electronic or print media, acting in such capacity, or a person
1-24 whose communication appears in or is published by the electronic or
2-1 print media, arising under the free speech or free press clause of
2-2 the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, or Article
2-3 1, Section 8, of the Texas Constitution, or Chapter 73; or
2-4 (7) under any federal law authorizing arbitration,
2-5 including the federal arbitration law (9 U.S.C. Section 1 et
2-6 seq.):
2-7 (A) denies an application to compel arbitration;
2-8 (B) grants an application to stay arbitration;
2-9 (C) confirms or denies confirmation of an
2-10 arbitration award;
2-11 (D) modifies or corrects an arbitration award;
2-12 or
2-13 (E) without directing a rehearing, vacates an
2-14 arbitration award.
2-15 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an order issued by a
2-16 court on or after the effective date of this Act. An order issued
2-17 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it
2-18 existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
2-19 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.