Court Opinion

ID: 9674385
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Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:28:01.459068+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:27.314326
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OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
SCHULTE, Justice.
We have considered Relator’s motion for rehearing. Relator cites us to Gonzalez v. H.E. Butt Grocery, Company, 667 S.W.2d 188 (Tex.App. — Corpus Christi 1983). It is different from our case in that the plea of privilege hearing was held prior to September 1, 1983, and was ruled on prior to that date. That court does, however, place a different interpretation on the paragraph of the amendment regarding its effective date. There, the court rejected the contention “that an appeal must be perfected in the venue matter prior to the effective date of the statute or it is subject to the amended rules and statute.” We nevertheless believe that when a specific exception is stated by the legislature, it makes plain the intent of the legislature that the statute should apply in all cases not excepted. State v. Richards, 157 Tex. 166, 301 S.W.2d 597, 600 (1957); Providence Hospital v. Truly, 611 S.W.2d 127, 133 (Tex.Civ.App. — Waco 1980, writ dism’d). The wording of the two phrases of Section 3 of the amendment “pending appeals on venue questions” and “appeals on venue questions pending,” we believe, refers to the same one exception. In any event, our ruling clearly poses the question that will have to be ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. The motion for rehearing is overruled.