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.