By Dunnam                                             H.B. No. 1991
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to appeal of certain court orders and judgments relating
 1-3     to arbitration.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 171.098, Civil Practice and Remedies
 1-6     Code, is repealed.
 1-7           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to an order issued or
 1-8     judgment entered by a court on or after the effective date of this
 1-9     Act.  An order issued or judgment entered before the effective date
1-10     of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before
1-11     the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-12     for that purpose.
1-13           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.