By Hilderbran H.B. No. 3450
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the collection civil penalties assessed under Chapter
1-3 242, Health and Safety Code.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, is amended
1-6 by adding Section 242.269 to read as follows:
1-7 Section 242.269. ENFORCEMENT OF ARBITRATION ORDER. (a)
1-8 Upon application of a party, the district court in which the
1-9 underlying lawsuit has been filed shall enter a judgment in
1-10 conformity with the arbitration award, unless, within the time
1-11 limits imposed under Section 242.067, grounds are urged for
1-12 vacating the order pursuant to Section 242.067.
1-13 (b) A judgment filed pursuant to Subsection (a) shall be
1-14 enforced as any other judgment or decree. Costs of the application
1-15 and of any proceedings subsequent thereto may be awarded by the
1-16 court.
1-17 SECTION 2. CIVIL CAUSES OF ACTION. The changes in law made
1-18 by this Act apply only to a cause of action that accrues on or
1-19 after the effective date of this Act. A cause of action that
1-20 accrues before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-21 law in effect on the date the cause of action accrues, and that law
2-1 is continued in effect for this purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect on
2-3 September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
2-5 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.