Bill Text: TX HB2479 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to alternative dispute resolution systems established by counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-14 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2479 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2479-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | H.B. No. 2479 | |
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| relating to alternative dispute resolution systems established by | ||
| counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 152.001, Civil Practices and Remedies | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 152.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "alternative | ||
| dispute resolution system" means an informal forum in which | ||
| mediation, conciliation, or arbitration is used to resolve disputes | ||
| among individuals, entities, and units of government, including | ||
| those having an ongoing relationship such as relatives, neighbors, | ||
| landlords and tenants, employees and employers, and merchants and | ||
| consumers. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 152.002(a), Civil Practices and Remedies | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The commissioners court of a county by order may | ||
| establish an alternative dispute resolution system for the | ||
| peaceable and expeditious resolution of [ |
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| SECTION 3. Section 152.003, Civil Practices and Remedies | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 152.003. REFERRAL OF CASES. A judge of a district | ||
| court, county court, statutory county court, probate court, or | ||
| justice of the peace court in a county in which an alternative | ||
| dispute resolution system has been established may, on motion of a | ||
| party or on the judge's or justice's own motion, refer a civil or, on | ||
| the written consent of the state, a criminal case to the system. | ||
| Referral under this section does not prejudice the case. | ||
| SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a case referred to a county alternative dispute resolution system | ||
| on or after the effective date of this Act. A case referred before | ||
| the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when | ||
| the case is referred, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
