By Uresti                                             H.B. No. 3604
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the imposition of sanctions by a court on a person who
 1-3     signs a pleading or motion.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 9.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  This section does not apply to any proceeding to which
 1-8     Section 10.004 or Rule 13, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, applies.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.