By Eiland H.B. No. 2581
76R8396 DLF-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to appeals of certain interlocutory orders.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 51.014, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-5 is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-6 (c) A denial of a motion for summary judgment, special
1-7 appearance, or plea to the jurisdiction described by Subsections
1-8 (a)(5)-(8) is not subject to the automatic stay of the commencement
1-9 of trial under Subsection (b) unless the motion, special
1-10 appearance, or plea to the jurisdiction is filed and set for
1-11 submission or hearing before the trial court not later than the
1-12 later of:
1-13 (1) the 100th day before the date of the first trial
1-14 setting; or
1-15 (2) the 150th day after the date the defendant files:
1-16 (A) the original answer; or
1-17 (B) the first other responsive pleading to the
1-18 plaintiff's petition.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20 SECTION 3. This Act applies only to a suit that is commenced
1-21 on or after the effective date of this Act. A suit that is
1-22 commenced before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-23 law applicable to the suit immediately before the effective date of
1-24 this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.