By Haywood S.B. No. 287
75R3192 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appeal of an interlocutory order to certify or
1-3 refuse to certify a class action.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 22.225(d), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (d) A writ of error is allowed from the supreme court for
1-8 appeals [an appeal] from [an] interlocutory orders [order]
1-9 described by Sections 51.014(3) and [Section] 51.014(6), Civil
1-10 Practice and Remedies Code.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-12 applies only to the appeal of an interlocutory order from a court
1-13 if the order was rendered on or after the effective date of this
1-14 Act. Appeal of an interlocutory order rendered before the
1-15 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
1-16 time the order was rendered, and that law is continued in effect
1-17 for that purpose.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.