By Thompson H.B. No. 1943 74R6796 DLF-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the fee for production of documents in accordance with 1-3 a subpoena. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Civil Practice and 1-6 Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 22.004 to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 Sec. 22.004. FEE FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS WITH 1-9 DEPOSITION. (a) A custodian of a record who receives a summons 1-10 for production of a record and a sworn deposition on written 1-11 questions or an affidavit relating to the record or a certification 1-12 of the record is entitled to $1 for production of the record and 1-13 the deposition, affidavit, or certification. If more than one 1-14 record is required in a single subpoena, the custodian of the 1-15 records is entitled to only one fee under this section. 1-16 (b) A custodian of a record who produces a record with a 1-17 deposition, affidavit, or certification, but who is not required to 1-18 attend court, is not entitled to a witness fee under Section 1-19 22.001. 1-20 (c) The party who requests production of a record shall pay 1-21 the fee required for the record, as provided by this section, at 1-22 the time the subpoena is served. 1-23 (d) The fee required by this section must be taxed in the 1-24 bill of costs as other costs. 2-1 (e) The fee required by this section is in addition to any 2-2 other fee imposed by law for the certification of a document. 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.