Bill Text: TX SB1603 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1603

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Bill Title: Relating to the decision of a court of appeals not to accept certain interlocutory appeals.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1603 Detail]

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	By: Hughes	S.B. No. 1603
	(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
	March 27, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
	Nays 0; March 27, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the decision of a court of appeals not to accept certain
	interlocutory appeals.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 51.014, Civil Practice and Remedies
	Code, is amended by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as
	follows:
	(g) If a court of appeals does not accept an appeal under
	Subsection (f), the court shall state in its decision the specific
	reason for finding that the appeal is not warranted under
	Subsection (d).
	(h) The supreme court may review a decision by a court of
	appeals not to accept an appeal under Subsection (f) under an abuse
	of discretion standard.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an application for interlocutory appeal filed on or after the
	effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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