Bill Text: TX HB3293 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the certificate of merit required for certain civil actions against certain licensed or registered professionals.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-14 - No action taken in committee [HB3293 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3293-Introduced.html
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| By: Schofield | H.B. No. 3293 | |
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| relating to the certificate of merit required for certain civil | ||
| actions against certain licensed or registered professionals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 150.002, Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) The affidavit shall set forth specifically facts | ||
| sufficient to establish the affiant's familiarity or experience | ||
| with the relevant practice area such that the affiant's | ||
| qualifications to render an opinion on the matters set forth in the | ||
| affidavit for purposes of Subsection (b) are established. The | ||
| affiant must attach to the affidavit as an exhibit the affiant's | ||
| curriculum vitae or a similar document sufficient to establish that | ||
| the affiant meets the requirements of Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an action commenced on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| An action commenced before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective | ||
| date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
