1-1 By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Henderson) H.B. No. 1943 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995; 1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the fee for production or certification of documents. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Civil Practice and 1-11 Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 22.004 to read as 1-12 follows: 1-13 Sec. 22.004. FEE FOR PRODUCTION OR CERTIFICATION OF 1-14 DOCUMENTS. (a) A custodian of a record who receives a request for 1-15 production or certification of a record under a subpoena, a request 1-16 for production, or other instrument issued under the authority of a 1-17 tribunal that compels production or certification of a record is 1-18 entitled to $1 for production or certification of the record. If 1-19 more than one record is produced or certified, the custodian of the 1-20 records is entitled to only one fee under this section. 1-21 (b) A custodian of a record who produces or certifies a 1-22 record under Subsection (a), but who is not required to appear in 1-23 court, is not entitled to a witness fee under Section 22.001. 1-24 (c) The party who requests production or certification of a 1-25 record shall pay the fee required for the record, as provided by 1-26 this section, at the time the subpoena, request, or other 1-27 instrument is served. 1-28 (d) The fee required by this section must be taxed in the 1-29 bill of costs as other costs. 1-30 (e) The fee required by this section is in addition to any 1-31 other fee imposed by law for the production or certification of a 1-32 record. 1-33 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-39 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-40 * * * * *