Bill Text: TX HB3032 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prompt resolution of appeals in civil actions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB3032 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3032-Introduced.html
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By: Hernandez Luna | H.B. No. 3032 |
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relating to the prompt resolution of appeals in civil actions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22.004, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (i), (j), and (k) to read as follows: | ||
(i) The supreme court shall adopt rules to promote the | ||
prompt, efficient, and cost-effective resolution of an appeal in a | ||
civil action. The rules shall apply to all courts of appeals and the | ||
supreme court. The rules shall address the need for the full and | ||
final disposition of: | ||
(1) an appeal not later than one year after the date a | ||
party perfects the appeal; and | ||
(2) an expedited and interlocutory appeal not later | ||
than three months after the date a party perfects the appeal. | ||
(j) The supreme court shall adopt rules that establish a | ||
procedure to uphold, without opinion, a lower court's judgment or | ||
order that is the subject of an appeal that the appellate court has | ||
failed to dispose of within the applicable period described by | ||
Subsection (i). | ||
(k) The supreme court shall adopt rules that require a court | ||
of appeals to publish or post a list of cases that have been pending | ||
with the court for six months or more on the websites of the court of | ||
appeals and the supreme court and on the front entrance of the | ||
courthouse where the court conducts proceedings. The list must | ||
include the: | ||
(1) case name; | ||
(2) case number; | ||
(3) description of the case as it appears on the | ||
docketing statement; | ||
(4) date the party perfected the appeal; and | ||
(5) number of calendar days the case has been pending. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than May 1, 2014, the Texas Supreme | ||
Court shall adopt the rules necessary to implement Sections | ||
22.004(i), (j), and (k), Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |