By Haywood                                       S.B. No. 287

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                                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.