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.