By Haywood                                              S.B. No. 52
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the appeal of an interlocutory order to certify or
 1-3     refuse to certify a class action.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 22.225(d), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  A writ of error is allowed from the supreme court for
 1-8     appeals [an appeal] from [an] interlocutory orders [order]
 1-9     described by Sections 51.014(a)(3) and 51.014(a)(6) [Section
1-10     51.014(6)], Civil  Practice and Remedies Code.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-12     applies only to the appeal of an interlocutory order from a court
1-13     if the order was rendered on or after the effective date of this
1-14     Act.  The appeal of an interlocutory order rendered before the
1-15     effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
1-16     time the order was rendered, and that law is continued in effect
1-17     for that purpose.
1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.