1-1     By:  Haywood                                           S.B. No. 287

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 23, 1997; January 28, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;

 1-4     March 19, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 19, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Harris

 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 287 on page 1, line 20, by striking

 1-8     September 1, 1997, and inserting the word immediately.

 1-9                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-10                                   AN ACT

1-11     relating to the appeal of an interlocutory order to certify or

1-12     refuse to certify a class action.

1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-14           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 22.225, Government Code,

1-15     is amended to read as follows:

1-16           (d)  A writ of error is allowed from the supreme court for

1-17     appeals [an appeal] from [an] interlocutory orders [order]

1-18     described by Sections 51.014(3) and [Section] 51.014(6), Civil

1-19     Practice and Remedies Code.

1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-21     applies only to the appeal of an interlocutory order from a court

1-22     if the order was rendered on or after the effective date of this

1-23     Act.  Appeal of an interlocutory order rendered before the

1-24     effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the

1-25     time the order was rendered, and that law is continued in effect

1-26     for that purpose.

1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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