Sec. 121.403.  APPEAL FROM TRIAL COURT.  An appeal from an action under Section 121.402:
(1)  is at once returnable to the appellate court;  and
(2)  has precedence in the appellate court over each other pending cause of a different character.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.