1-1 By: Rudd (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 199
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 5, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 5, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Armbrister x
1-9 Leedom x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Madla x
1-13 Moncrief x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Rosson x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 Whitmire x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the residence of county and district clerks or their
1-22 deputies.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 82.006, Local Government Code, is
1-25 repealed.
1-26 SECTION 2. Section 51.309(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-27 read as follows:
1-28 (a) The district clerk may appoint deputy clerks. Each
1-29 appointment must be in writing under the hand and seal of the
1-30 district court and must be recorded in the office of the county
1-31 clerk. A deputy clerk must take the oath prescribed for officers
1-32 of this state. A deputy clerk may perform in the name of the
1-33 district clerk all official acts of the office of district clerk.
1-34 <A district clerk not residing at the county seat shall appoint a
1-35 deputy clerk who does reside there.>
1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-43 * * * * *
1-44 Austin,
1-45 Texas
1-46 May 5, 1993
1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-48 President of the Senate
1-49 Sir:
1-50 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-51 referred H.B. No. 199, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-52 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-53 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-54 Armbrister,
1-55 Chairman
1-56 * * * * *
1-57 WITNESSES
1-58 FOR AGAINST ON
1-59 ___________________________________________________________________
1-60 Name: Jim Allison x
1-61 Representing: County Judges & Comm. Assn
1-62 City: Austin
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1-64 Name: R. W. Self x
1-65 Representing: County Judges & Comm. Assn
1-66 City: Crosbyton
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