By Swinford H.B. No. 3199
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the duties of the secretary of state.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 405.017, Government Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (6) to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 405.017. Miscellaneous Duties. The secretary of state
1-7 shall:
1-8 (1) affix the state seal to all official documents
1-9 issued from the secretary of state's office;
1-10 (2) unless provided otherwise by law, commission state
1-11 officers;
1-12 (3) keep in a separate suitable book a register of all
1-13 state officers;
1-14 (4) immediately on receipt, deliver to the person in
1-15 charge of the state library all books, maps, charts, printed
1-16 volumes of the laws of a nation, territory, or another state, or
1-17 other political or miscellaneous publications received in the
1-18 secretary of state's office; <and>
1-19 (5) immediately on receipt, deliver to the supreme
1-20 court librarian reports of courts of a nation, territory, or
1-21 another state received in the secretary of state's office; and
1-22 (6) perform such other and further duties as may be
1-23 directed by the governor.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.