By Place                                              H.B. No. 2269
       74R7322 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a county clerk to waive or reduce the
    1-3  fee imposed for copies of certain documents.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 118.0145, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 118.0145.  Noncertified Papers.  (a)  The fee for
    1-8  "Noncertified Papers" under Section 118.011 is for issuing a
    1-9  noncertified copy of each page or part of a page of a document.
   1-10  The fee must be paid at the time the order is placed.
   1-11        (b)  A county clerk may waive or reduce the fee provided in
   1-12  Section 118.011 for issuing a noncertified copy of a page or a
   1-13  portion of a page of a document if the document:
   1-14              (1)  involves a matter relating to family law,
   1-15  including a divorce decree; or
   1-16              (2)  is the record of a judgment in a misdemeanor case.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.