By Tallas H.B. No. 2751
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certified papers.
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 Sec. 118.014. Certified Papers
1-7 (a) The fee for "Certified Papers" under Section 118.011 is
1-8 for <the> each county clerk's certificate placed on each page or
1-9 part of a page of a <and for issuing each certified copy,> notice,
1-10 statement, license, or document that the clerk is authorized or
1-11 required to issue. The fee must be paid <in cash> at the time the
1-12 order is placed.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 118.060(a), Local Government Code, is
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 118.060(a). Certified Papers<, No Return Required>
1-16 (a) The fee for "Certified Papers<, No Return Required">
1-17 under Section 118.052(3) is for <the> each county clerk's
1-18 certificate placed on each page or part of a page of a <and for
1-19 issuing a certificate, certified copy,> notice, statement,
1-20 transcript, or other document authorized or required to be issued
1-21 by the clerk <on which no return is to be recorded.>
1-22 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-23 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this ACT take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and so it is enacted.