Bill Text: TX HB2757 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the rule of decision in a court of this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2757 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2757-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the rule of decision in a court of this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2757 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2757-Comm_Sub.html
By: Leach (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) | H.B. No. 2757 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2019; | ||
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 15, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2757 | By: Zaffirini |
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relating to the rule of decision in a court of this state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 5.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 5.001. RULE OF DECISION. (a) The rule of decision in | ||
this state consists of those portions of the common law of England | ||
that are not inconsistent with the constitution or the laws of this | ||
state, the constitution of this state, and the laws of this state. | ||
(b) In any action governed by the laws of this state | ||
concerning rights and obligations under the law, the American Law | ||
Institute's Restatements of the Law are not controlling. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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