73R7747 CAG-D
          By Rudd                                                H.B. No. 199
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the residence of county and district clerks or their
    1-3  deputies.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 82.006, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  repealed.
    1-7        SECTION 2.  Section 51.309(a), Government Code, is amended to
    1-8  read as follows:
    1-9        (a)  The district clerk may appoint deputy clerks.  Each
   1-10  appointment must be in writing under the hand and seal of the
   1-11  district court and must be recorded in the office of the county
   1-12  clerk.  A deputy clerk must take the oath prescribed for officers
   1-13  of this state.  A deputy clerk may perform in the name of the
   1-14  district clerk all official acts of the office of district clerk.
   1-15  <A district clerk not residing at the county seat shall appoint a
   1-16  deputy clerk who does reside there.>
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.