1-1 By: Saunders (Senate Sponsor - Turner) H.B. No. 931
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 11, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to certain fees charged by district clerks.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Section 51.317(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-20 read as follows:
1-21 (b) The fees are:
1-22 (1) for filing a suit, including an appeal from an
1-23 inferior court.................................................$45
1-24 (2) for filing a cross-action, intervention, contempt
1-25 action, or motion for new trial................................$15
1-26 (3) for issuing a subpoena, including one copy, when
1-27 requested at the time a suit or action is filed..........$ 8 <$ 4>
1-28 (4) for issuing a citation or other writ or process
1-29 not otherwise provided for, including one copy, when requested at
1-30 the time a suit or action is filed.............................$ 8
1-31 (5) for issuing an additional copy of a process not
1-32 otherwise provided for, when requested at the time a suit or action
1-33 is filed......................................................$ 4.
1-34 SECTION 2. Section 51.318(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-35 read as follows:
1-36 (b) The fees are:
1-37 (1) for issuing a subpoena not provided for in Section
1-38 51.317, including one copy.................................$8 <$4>
1-39 (2) for issuing a citation, commission for deposition,
1-40 writ of execution, order of sale, writ of execution and order of
1-41 sale, writ of injunction, writ of garnishment, writ of attachment,
1-42 or writ of sequestration not provided for in Section 51.317, or any
1-43 other writ or process not otherwise provided for, including one
1-44 copy if required by law.........................................$8
1-45 (3) for an additional copy of a writ or process not
1-46 otherwise provided for..........................................$4
1-47 (4) for searching files or records to locate a cause
1-48 when the docket number is not provided..........................$5
1-49 (5) for searching files or records to ascertain the
1-50 existence of an instrument or record in the district
1-51 clerk's office..................................................$5
1-52 (6) for certifying a fact contained in a record in the
1-53 district clerk's office.........................................$2
1-54 (7) for issuing a deposition, for each
1-55 100 words..................................................20 cents
1-56 (8) for issuing interrogatories with certificate and
1-57 seal, for each page or part of a page...........................$1
1-58 (9) for abstracting a judgment................$8 <$4>
1-59 (10) for approving a bond..........................$4
1-60 (11) for a certified copy of a record, judgment,
1-61 order, pleading, or paper on file or of record in the district
1-62 clerk's office, including certificate and seal, for each page or
1-63 part of a page.................................................$1.
1-64 SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
1-65 fees that become payable on or after the effective date of this
1-66 Act. A fee that became payable before the effective date of this
1-67 Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the fee became
1-68 payable, and that law remains in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-2 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-7 * * * * *
2-8 Austin,
2-9 Texas
2-10 May 25, 1993
2-11 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-12 President of the Senate
2-13 Sir:
2-14 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
2-15 No. 931, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-16 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-17 pass and be printed.
2-18 Henderson,
2-19 Chairman
2-20 * * * * *
2-21 WITNESSES
2-22 FOR AGAINST ON
2-23 ___________________________________________________________________
2-24 Name: Cecelia Adair x
2-25 Representing: Cty Dist. Clerks Assn.
2-26 City: Austin
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