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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