73R8998 E By Tallas H.B. No. 2750 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2750: By Corte C.S.H.B. No. 2750 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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) and (k), Local Government 1-6 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 (k) This section does not authorize a county clerk to refuse 1-19 to record a legal paper for the reason that it fails to meet one or 1-20 more of the requirements prescribed by Subsections (b) through (g). 1-21 Failure to comply with these requirements shall not in any manner 1-22 alter, amend, impair, or invalidate any document or legal 1-23 instrument of any type or character and upon recordation by the 2-1 county clerk the document or legal instrument shall be deemed and 2-2 considered as fully complying with the provisions of law dealing 2-3 with the recordation of documents or legal instruments of every 2-4 type and character. 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.