By: Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 2776
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
  May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
  Affairs; May 19, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 1;
  May 19, 2017, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2776 By:  Creighton
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the right of certain appellants to supersede a judgment
  or order on appeal.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 22.004, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
         (i)  The supreme court shall adopt rules to provide that the
  right of an appellant under Section 6.001(b)(1), (2), or (3), Civil
  Practice and Remedies Code, to supersede a judgment or order on
  appeal is not subject to being counter-superseded under Rule
  24.2(a)(3), Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, or any other rule.  
  Counter-supersedeas shall remain available to parties in a lawsuit
  concerning a matter that was the basis of a contested case in an
  administrative enforcement action.
         SECTION 2.  The Texas Supreme Court shall adopt the rules
  required by Section 22.004(i), Government Code, as added by this
  Act, before May 1, 2018.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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