H.B. No. 2750
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain requirements for legal papers filed with a
    1-3  county clerk.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 191.007(b), (h), and (k), Local
    1-6  Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  A page is considered to be one side of a sheet of paper.
    1-8  A page must:
    1-9              (1)  be no wider than 8-1/2  inches and no longer than
   1-10  14 inches;
   1-11              (2)  have a sufficient weight and substance so that
   1-12  printing, typing, or handwriting on it will not smear or bleed
   1-13  through; and
   1-14              (3)  be printed in type not smaller than eight-point
   1-15  type and be suitable otherwise for reproducing from it a readable
   1-16  record by a photocopy or photostatic or microphotographic process
   1-17  used in the office of the county clerk.
   1-18        (h)  The filing fee or recording fee for each page of a legal
   1-19  paper that is presented for filing or recording to a county clerk
   1-20  and fails to meet one or more of the requirements prescribed by
   1-21  Subsections (b) through (g) is equal to twice the regular filing
   1-22  fee or recording fee provided by statute for that page.  However,
   1-23  the failure of a page to meet the requirement prescribed by
    2-1  Subsection (b)(3) relating to type size does not result in a fee
    2-2  increase under this subsection.
    2-3        (k)  This section does not authorize a county clerk to refuse
    2-4  to record a legal paper for the reason that it fails to meet one or
    2-5  more of the requirements prescribed by Subsections (b) through (g).
    2-6  Failure to comply with these requirements shall not in any manner
    2-7  alter, amend, impair, or invalidate any document or legal
    2-8  instrument of any type or character and upon recordation by the
    2-9  county clerk the document or legal instrument shall be deemed and
   2-10  considered as fully complying with the provisions of law dealing
   2-11  with the recordation of documents or legal instruments of every
   2-12  type and character.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.