H.B. No. 199
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1-6 repealed.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.