| 1 | 1 | | By: Creighton S.B. No. 1441 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2017; March 20, 2017, read |
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| 3 | 3 | | first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; |
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| 4 | 4 | | April 10, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, |
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| 5 | 5 | | Nays 3; April 10, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to the right of certain appellants to supersede a judgment |
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| 12 | 12 | | or order on appeal. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 22.004, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 15 | 15 | | adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (i) The supreme court shall adopt rules to provide that the |
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| 17 | 17 | | right of an appellant under Section 6.001(b)(1), (2), or (3), Civil |
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| 18 | 18 | | Practice and Remedies Code, to supersede a judgment or order on |
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| 19 | 19 | | appeal is not subject to being counter-superseded under Rule |
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| 20 | 20 | | 24.2(a)(3), Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, or any other rule. |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 2. The Texas Supreme Court shall adopt the rules |
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| 22 | 22 | | required by Section 22.004(i), Government Code, as added by this |
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| 23 | 23 | | Act, before May 1, 2018. |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 25 | 25 | | * * * * * |
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