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.