By Thompson H.B. No. 1943 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the fee for production or certification of documents. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Civil Practice and 1-5 Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 22.004 to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 Sec. 22.004. FEE FOR PRODUCTION OR CERTIFICATION OF 1-8 DOCUMENTS. (a) A custodian of a record who receives a request for 1-9 production or certification of a record under a subpoena, a request 1-10 for production, or other instrument issued under the authority of a 1-11 tribunal that compels production or certification of a record is 1-12 entitled to $1 for production or certification of the record. If 1-13 more than one record is produced or certified, the custodian of the 1-14 records is entitled to only one fee under this section. 1-15 (b) A custodian of a record who produces or certifies a 1-16 record under Subsection (a), but who is not required to appear in 1-17 court, is not entitled to a witness fee under Section 22.001. 1-18 (c) The party who requests production or certification of a 1-19 record shall pay the fee required for the record, as provided by 1-20 this section, at the time the subpoena, request, or other 1-21 instrument is served. 1-22 (d) The fee required by this section must be taxed in the 1-23 bill of costs as other costs. 1-24 (e) The fee required by this section is in addition to any 2-1 other fee imposed by law for the production or certification of a 2-2 record. 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.