By Uher H.B. No. 3800 76R9845 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the accrual of interest on certain judgments. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 304.005, Finance Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) If judgment is rendered for a plaintiff and the 1-7 plaintiff appeals the judgment, interest does not accrue if the 1-8 party against whom the judgment is rendered: 1-9 (1) does not also appeal the judgment; and 1-10 (2) offers to pay the plaintiff the amount of the 1-11 judgment and all interest accrued to the date of the offer to pay. 1-12 (d) Interest begins accruing on a judgment under Subsection 1-13 (c) if the party against whom the judgment is rendered: 1-14 (1) appeals the judgment; or 1-15 (2) withdraws in writing the offer to pay under 1-16 Subsection (c)(2). 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-18 applies only to a judgment rendered on or after that date. A 1-19 judgment rendered before the effective date of this Act is governed 1-20 by the law applicable to the judgment immediately before the 1-21 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for 1-22 that purpose. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.