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.
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