1-1 By: Uresti (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 3604 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999; 1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the imposition of sanctions by a court on a person who 1-9 signs a pleading or motion. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 9.012, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-13 (h) This section does not apply to any proceeding to which 1-14 Section 10.004 or Rule 13, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, applies. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-21 * * * * *