Bill Text: TX HB3333 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to limitations periods in arbitration proceedings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB3333 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3333-Comm_Sub.html
By: Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | H.B. No. 3333 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2021; | ||
May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 18, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to limitations periods in arbitration proceedings. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 16, Civil Practice and | ||
Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 16.073 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 16.073. APPLICABILITY OF LIMITATIONS PERIODS TO | ||
ARBITRATION. (a) A party may not assert a claim in an arbitration | ||
proceeding if the party could not bring suit for the claim in court | ||
due to the expiration of the applicable limitations period. | ||
(b) A party may assert a claim in an arbitration proceeding | ||
after expiration of the applicable limitations period if: | ||
(1) the party brought suit for the claim in court | ||
before the expiration of the applicable limitations period; and | ||
(2) the parties to the claim agreed to arbitrate the | ||
claim or a court ordered the parties to arbitrate the claim. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. | ||
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