By:  Holzheauser                                       H.B. No. 350
       73R1633 DLF-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to persons who are authorized to administer oaths,
    1-3  affidavits, and affirmations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 1, Article 26, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        1.  All oaths, affidavits, or affirmations made within this
    1-8  State may be administered and a certificate of the fact given by:
    1-9              a.  A judge, clerk, or commissioner of any court of
   1-10  record;
   1-11              b.  A notary public;
   1-12              c.  A justice of the peace or a clerk of a justice
   1-13  court;
   1-14              d.  A judge or clerk of a municipal court;
   1-15              e <d>.  Any member of any board or commission created
   1-16  by the laws of this State, in matters pertaining to the duties
   1-17  thereof;
   1-18              f <e>.  The Secretary of State of Texas;
   1-19              g <f>.  An employee of the Texas Ethics Commission
   1-20  <Secretary of State of Texas> who has duties related to the reports
   1-21  required by Title 15, Election Code, in matters pertaining to those
   1-22  duties;
   1-23              h <g>.  The Lieutenant Governor of Texas;
   1-24              i <h>.  The Speaker of the House of Representatives of
    2-1  Texas; and
    2-2              j <i>.  The Governor of Texas.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.