Amend HB 1138 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 1.  Section 292.006, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      Sec. 292.006.  BRANCH OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK <FOR ISSUANCE OF
MARRIAGE LICENSES>.  (a)  On the request of the county clerk, the
commissioners court of a county may provide by any means, operate,
and maintain one or more branch offices at any place in the county
for the county clerk <for the purpose of issuing marriage
licenses>.
      (b)  If a branch office is provided under this section in a
building owned by the county, the commissioners court shall operate
and maintain the building in the same manner that it operates and
maintains the county courthouse.  The commissioners court shall
have care and custody of the building and may place any limitations
on the use and maintenance of the building it finds necessary.
      (c)  The county clerk may authorize one or more of the
clerk's deputies to work in the branch office to conduct any
business as determined by the county clerk and in accordance with
Subsection (d).  <A deputy who is appointed by the county clerk may
take a marriage application from a person who desires to be
licensed to be married, and the deputy may issue a valid marriage
license to a qualified applicant.>
      (d)  If the recording of instruments or documents in the
county's official records is permitted at a branch office by the
county clerk, the recording must be by electronic means and the
electronically recorded instruments or documents must be available
without delay to members of the public in the county clerk's office
at the county seat.  For purposes of this subsection, an instrument
or document is available if it is capable of being:
            (1)  electronically examined by a member of the public
in the county clerk's office at the county seat; and
            (2)  placed into a format and medium that a member of
the public can electronically process using technology that is
generally available and nonproprietary.
      (e)  On a daily <regular> basis, as directed by the county
clerk, a deputy at a branch office shall file all original records
made at that office during the previous day <year> with the county
clerk's office at the county seat not later than the start of the
next business day.
      SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.