73R7914 RWS-D
          By Tallas                                             H.B. No. 2751
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2751:
          By Longoria                                       C.S.H.B. No. 2751
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of certain documents by county clerks.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 118.014(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The fees <fee> for "Certified Papers" under Section
    1-7  118.011 are <is> for each <the> county clerk's certificate that
    1-8  shall be placed on each page or part of a page, plus a fee for
    1-9  copying each page or part of a page, of a <and for issuing each
   1-10  certified copy,> notice, statement, license, or document that the
   1-11  clerk is authorized or required to issue.  The fees <fee> must be
   1-12  paid <in cash> at the time the order is placed.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 118.059, Local Government Code, is
   1-14  amended to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 118.059.  Issuing Document <Requiring Return, No Pending
   1-16  Action>.  (a)  The fee <fees> for "Issuing Document <Requiring a
   1-17  Return, No Pending Action>" under Section 118.052(3) is <are> for
   1-18  <services in connection with which no action is pending.>
   1-19        <(b)  The fee for> issuing an original document and one copy
   1-20  and includes recording the return of the document.
   1-21        (b) <(c)>  The fee for issuing for the same action at the
   1-22  same time more than one set of an original and one copy of the same
   1-23  document includes recording the return of the document.  The fee
    2-1  must be paid at the time the order is placed.
    2-2        (c) <(d)>  In this section, "document" includes a citation,
    2-3  notice, commission to take depositions, execution, order, writ,
    2-4  process, or other instrument or paper authorized or required to be
    2-5  issued by the clerk <and on which a return must be recorded>.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  Section 118.060(a), Local Government Code, is
    2-7  amended to read as follows:
    2-8        (a)  The fees <fee> for "Certified Papers<, No Return
    2-9  Required>" under Section 118.052(3) are <is> for each county <the>
   2-10  clerk's certificate that  shall be placed on each page or part of a
   2-11  page, plus a fee for copying each page or part of a page, of a <and
   2-12  for issuing a certificate, certified copy,> notice, statement,
   2-13  transcript, or other document authorized or required to be issued
   2-14  by the clerk <on which no return is to be recorded>.
   2-15        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-16        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.