76R8473 DAK-D                           
         By Cuellar                                              H.B. No. 57
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 57:
         By Deshotel                                         C.S.H.B. No. 57
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to persons authorized to administer oaths made in Texas.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 602.002, Government Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 602.002.  OATH MADE IN TEXAS.  An oath made in this
 1-7     state may be administered and a certificate of the fact given by:
 1-8                 (1)  a judge, clerk, or commissioner of a court of
 1-9     record;
1-10                 (2)  a justice of the peace or a clerk of a justice
1-11     court;
1-12                 (3)  a notary public;
1-13                 (4)  a member of a board or commission created by a law
1-14     of this state, in a matter pertaining to a duty of the board or
1-15     commission;
1-16                 (5)  a person employed by the Texas Ethics Commission
1-17     who has a duty related to a report required by Title 15, Election
1-18     Code, in a matter pertaining to that duty;
1-19                 (6)  a county tax assessor-collector or an employee of
1-20     the county tax assessor-collector if the oath relates to a document
1-21     that is required or authorized to be filed in the office of the
1-22     county tax assessor-collector;
1-23                 (7)  the secretary of state;
1-24                 (8)  the lieutenant governor;
 2-1                 (9)  the speaker of the house of representatives; [or]
 2-2                 (10)  the governor; or
 2-3                 (11)  the secretary or clerk of a municipality in a
 2-4     matter pertaining to the official business of the municipality.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.