By: Haywood S.B. No. 287
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the appeal of an interlocutory order to certify or
1-2 refuse to certify a class action.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 22.225, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) A writ of error is allowed from the supreme court for
1-7 appeals [an appeal] from [an] interlocutory orders [order]
1-8 described by Sections 51.014(3) and [Section] 51.014(6), Civil
1-9 Practice and Remedies Code.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately and applies
1-11 only to the appeal of an interlocutory order from a court if the
1-12 order was rendered on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-13 Appeal of an interlocutory order rendered before the effective date
1-14 of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the order
1-15 was rendered, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.