H.B. No. 1294
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the duties of a clerk of a justice court.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section  27.056, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 27.056.  CLERK.  (a)  Each justice of the peace may
    1-7  designate one or more persons to serve as clerk of the justice
    1-8  court.
    1-9        (b)  The clerk may administer oaths and affidavits and make
   1-10  certificates and affix the court's seal to those certificates.
   1-11        (c)  The clerk shall:
   1-12              (1)  maintain central docket records for all cases
   1-13  filed in the justice court;
   1-14              (2)  maintain an index of all court judgments for cases
   1-15  arising in the justice court; and
   1-16              (3)  <A clerk shall> perform the other duties required
   1-17  by law and <shall> assist the judge in handling matters before the
   1-18  court.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.