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.