By Duncan S.B. No. 1110
75R7442 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the award of attorney's fees under the Uniform
1-3 Declaratory Judgments Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.009, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 37.009. COSTS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection
1-8 (b), in [In] any proceeding under this chapter, the court may award
1-9 costs and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees as are equitable
1-10 and just.
1-11 (b) The court may not award attorney's fees in a proceeding
1-12 against a municipality.
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.