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.