Bill Text: TX HR2187 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 2342.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-27 - Reported enrolled [HR2187 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HR2187-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.R. No. 2187
 
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
         BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
  Texas, 86th Legislature, 2019, That House Rule 13, Section 9(a), be
  suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13, Section 9(f), to
  enable the conference committee appointed to resolve the
  differences on Senate Bill 2342 (the jurisdiction of, and practices
  and procedures in civil cases before, justice courts, county
  courts, statutory county courts, and district courts) to consider
  and take action on the following matters:
         (1)  House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(1), is suspended to permit
  the committee to amend text not in disagreement in proposed SECTION
  35 of the bill, in a transition provision of the bill, to read as
  follows:
         SECTION 35.  Not later than January 1, 2021, the Supreme
  Court of Texas shall adopt rules as necessary to implement Section
  22.004(h-1), Government Code, as added by this Act.
         Explanation: The change is necessary to provide the Supreme
  Court of Texas additional time to adopt rules as necessary to
  implement certain provisions added by the Act.
         (2)  House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(1), is suspended to permit
  the committee to amend text not in disagreement in proposed SECTION
  37 of the bill, in the effective date provision of the bill, to read
  as follows:
         SECTION 37.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2020.
         Explanation: The change is necessary to delay by one year the
  effective date of the Act.
 
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  ______________________________
  Speaker of the House     
 
         I certify that H.R. No. 2187 was adopted by the House on May
  26, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 131, Nays 12, 1 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
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