By Tallas H.B. No. 2748 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duty of County Clerk as recorder. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.004(a)(1), Property Code, is amended 1-5 to read as follows: 1-6 (a) A county clerk shall: 1-7 (1) correctly record, as required by law, within a 1-8 reasonable time after delivery, any instrument authorized or 1-9 required to be recorded in that clerk's office that is proved, 1-10 acknowledged, or sworn to according to law which has incorporated 1-11 as part of the first page of the instrument the recorder's index 1-12 information; 1-13 (2) give a receipt as required by law, for an 1-14 instrument delivered for recording; 1-15 (3) record instruments relating to the same property 1-16 in the order the instruments are filed; and 1-17 (4) provide and keep in the clerk's office the indexes 1-18 required by law. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.