74R8920 DRH-F
          By Coleman                                             H.B. No. 626
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 626:
          By Hamric                                          C.S.H.B. No. 626
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a county judge in a county with a
    1-3  population of more than one million to delegate certain
    1-4  responsibilities.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code,
    1-7  is amended by adding Section 81.029 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 81.029.  DELEGATION OF DUTIES BY COUNTY JUDGE IN COUNTY
    1-9  WITH POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION.  (a)  This section
   1-10  applies only to the county judge of a county with a population of
   1-11  more than one million.
   1-12        (b)  The county judge by order may designate another county
   1-13  officer or an employee of the county to sign on behalf of the
   1-14  county judge an order or official county document in relation to
   1-15  which the county judge is performing a ministerial act and
   1-16  exercising an executive power regarding county business.
   1-17        (c)  The order must clearly indicate the types of orders or
   1-18  documents that may be signed on behalf of the county judge.
   1-19        (d)  The signature of a person designated by the county judge
   1-20  under Subsection (b) has the same effect on the order or document
   1-21  as the signature of the county judge.
   1-22        (e)  The county judge may by order revoke a designation made
   1-23  under Subsection (b).
    2-1        (f)  An order made under this section must be filed with the
    2-2  county commissioners court.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.