Bill Text: TX HB2776 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 2776 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the right of certain appellants to supersede a judgment or order on appeal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2776 Detail]

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	By: Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Creighton)	H.B. No. 2776
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
	May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 19, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1;
	May 19, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2776	By: Creighton


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the right of certain appellants to supersede a judgment
	or order on appeal.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 22.004, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
	(i) The supreme court shall adopt rules to provide that the
	right of an appellant under Section 6.001(b)(1), (2), or (3), Civil
	Practice and Remedies Code, to supersede a judgment or order on
	appeal is not subject to being counter-superseded under Rule
	24.2(a)(3), Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, or any other rule.
	Counter-supersedeas shall remain available to parties in a lawsuit
	concerning a matter that was the basis of a contested case in an
	administrative enforcement action.
	SECTION 2. The Texas Supreme Court shall adopt the rules
	required by Section 22.004(i), Government Code, as added by this
	Act, before May 1, 2018.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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