By Cuellar of Webb                                     H.B. No. 385
       74R1667 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to persons authorized to administer oaths made in Texas.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 602.002, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 602.002.  Oath Made in Texas.  An oath made in this
    1-7  state may be administered and a certificate of the fact given by:
    1-8              (1)  a judge, clerk, or commissioner of a court of
    1-9  record;
   1-10              (2)  a justice of the peace or a clerk of a justice
   1-11  court;
   1-12              (3)  a notary public;
   1-13              (4)  a member of a board or commission created by a law
   1-14  of this state, in a matter pertaining to a duty of the board or
   1-15  commission;
   1-16              (5)  a person employed by the Texas Ethics Commission
   1-17  who has a duty related to a report required by Title 15, Election
   1-18  Code, in a matter pertaining to that duty;
   1-19              (6)  the secretary of state;
   1-20              (7)  the lieutenant governor;
   1-21              (8)  the speaker of the house of representatives; <or>
   1-22              (9)  the governor; or
   1-23              (10)  the secretary or clerk of a municipality.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.