Bill Text: TX HB1874 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an appeal from an interlocutory order of certain courts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1874-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1874 | ||
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| relating to an appeal from an interlocutory order of certain | ||
| courts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.014(a), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person may appeal from an interlocutory order of a | ||
| district court, county court at law, statutory probate court, or | ||
| county court that: | ||
| (1) appoints a receiver or trustee; | ||
| (2) overrules a motion to vacate an order that | ||
| appoints a receiver or trustee; | ||
| (3) certifies or refuses to certify a class in a suit | ||
| brought under Rule 42 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; | ||
| (4) grants or refuses a temporary injunction or grants | ||
| or overrules a motion to dissolve a temporary injunction as | ||
| provided by Chapter 65; | ||
| (5) denies a motion for summary judgment that is based | ||
| on an assertion of immunity by an individual who is an officer or | ||
| employee of the state or a political subdivision of the state; | ||
| (6) denies a motion for summary judgment that is based | ||
| in whole or in part upon a claim against or defense by a member of | ||
| the electronic or print media, acting in such capacity, or a person | ||
| whose communication appears in or is published by the electronic or | ||
| print media, arising under the free speech or free press clause of | ||
| the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, or Article | ||
| I, Section 8, of the Texas Constitution, or Chapter 73; | ||
| (7) grants or denies the special appearance of a | ||
| defendant under Rule 120a, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, except | ||
| in a suit brought under the Family Code; | ||
| (8) grants or denies a plea to the jurisdiction by a | ||
| governmental unit as that term is defined in Section 101.001; | ||
| (9) denies all or part of the relief sought by a motion | ||
| under Section 74.351(b), except that an appeal may not be taken from | ||
| an order granting an extension under Section 74.351; | ||
| (10) grants relief sought by a motion under Section | ||
| 74.351(l); or | ||
| (11) denies a motion to dismiss filed under Section | ||
| 90.007. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 51.014(a), Civil Practice and Remedies Code, applies only to an | ||
| appeal of an interlocutory order rendered on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. An appeal of an interlocutory order rendered | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
| effect immediately before that date, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1874 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1874 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
