Bill Text: TX HB942 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 942 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to an exemption for school districts from security for court costs and appeal bond.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB942 Detail]

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	By: Dukes, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)	H.B. No. 942
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 2011;
	April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Jurisprudence; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to an exemption for school districts from security for
	court costs and appeal bond.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 6, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is
	amended by adding Section 6.004 to read as follows:
	Sec. 6.004. SCHOOL DISTRICTS EXEMPT FROM SECURITY FOR COURT
	COSTS AND APPEAL BOND. A school district may institute and
	prosecute suits without giving security for cost and may appeal
	from judgment without giving supersedeas or cost bond.
	SECTION 2. Section 6.004, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
	as added by this Act, applies only to a suit or appeal filed on or
	after the effective date of this Act. A suit or appeal filed 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 September 1, 2011.

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