By: Haggerty H.B. No. 2618 73R6723 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to use of a records management and preservation fee paid 1-3 to a county clerk. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 118.0216, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 118.0216. Records Management and Preservation. The fee 1-8 for "Records Management and Preservation" under Section 118.011 is 1-9 for the records management and preservation services performed by 1-10 or on behalf of the county clerk after the filing and recording of 1-11 a document in the records of the office of the clerk. The fee must 1-12 be paid at the time of the filing of the document. The fee may be 1-13 used only to provide funds for specific records preservation and 1-14 automation projects. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.