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.