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   1-25  repealed.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.
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   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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