By Cuellar H.B. No. 3595 75R12326 CAG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the delegation of duties of the county judge of Webb 1-3 County. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 81.031 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 81.031. DELEGATION OF DUTIES OF COUNTY JUDGE IN WEBB 1-8 COUNTY. (a) The county judge of Webb County may file an order 1-9 with the commissioners court of the county delegating to another 1-10 county officer or an employee of the county the ability to sign 1-11 orders or other official documents associated with the county 1-12 judge's office. The delegating order shall clearly indicate the 1-13 types of orders or official documents that the officer or employee 1-14 may sign on behalf of the county judge. 1-15 (b) An order or official document signed by a county officer 1-16 or county employee acting under the delegated authority of the 1-17 county judge under this section has the same effect as an order of 1-18 the county judge. 1-19 (c) The county judge may at any time revoke the delegated 1-20 authority or transfer the authority to a different county officer 1-21 or county employee by filing an order with the commissioners court 1-22 of the county. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.