1-1  By:  Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)           H.B. No. 3199
    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 State
    1-4  Affairs; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the duties of the secretary of state.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 405.017, Government Code, is amended by
   1-11  adding Subsection (6) to read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 405.017.  Miscellaneous Duties.  The secretary of state
   1-13  shall:
   1-14              (1)  affix the state seal to all official documents
   1-15  issued from the secretary of state's office;
   1-16              (2)  unless provided otherwise by law, commission state
   1-17  officers;
   1-18              (3)  keep in a separate suitable book a register of all
   1-19  state officers;
   1-20              (4)  immediately on receipt, deliver to the person in
   1-21  charge of the state library all books, maps, charts, printed
   1-22  volumes of the laws of a nation, territory, or another state, or
   1-23  other political or miscellaneous publications received in the
   1-24  secretary of state's office; <and>
   1-25              (5)  immediately on receipt, deliver to the supreme
   1-26  court librarian reports of courts of a nation, territory, or
   1-27  another state received in the secretary of state's office; and
   1-28              (6)  perform such other and further duties as may be
   1-29  directed by the governor.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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