By: Dutton H.B. No. 1724 73R6386 MWV-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the taking of depositions. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 20.001(a), Civil Practice and Remedies 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) A deposition on written questions of a witness who is 1-7 alleged to reside or to be in this state may be taken by: 1-8 (1) a clerk of a district court; 1-9 (2) a judge or clerk of a county court; or 1-10 (3) a notary public of this state. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 1-12 applies only to depositions taken on or after that date. A 1-13 deposition taken before September 1, 1993, is governed by the law 1-14 in effect when the deposition was taken, and that law is continued 1-15 in effect for that purpose. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.