By: Phillips (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 2435
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2009;
May 6, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 23, 2009, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 23, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the location of an arbitration trial.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 151.010, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 151.010. RESTRICTIONS. Unless otherwise ordered by
the referring judge, a [A] trial under this chapter may not be held
in a public courtroom, and a public employee may not be involved in
the trial during regular working hours.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a trial commenced on or after the effective date of this Act. A
trial commenced before the effective date of this Act is governed by
the law as it existed immediately before that date, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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