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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