1-1     By:  Cuellar (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)               H.B. No. 57
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to persons authorized to administer oaths made in Texas.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 602.002, Government Code, is amended to
1-11     read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 602.002.  OATH MADE IN TEXAS.  An oath made in this
1-13     state may be administered and a certificate of the fact given by:
1-14                 (1)  a judge, clerk, or commissioner of a court of
1-15     record;
1-16                 (2)  a justice of the peace or a clerk of a justice
1-17     court;
1-18                 (3)  a notary public;
1-19                 (4)  a member of a board or commission created by a law
1-20     of this state, in a matter pertaining to a duty of the board or
1-21     commission;
1-22                 (5)  a person employed by the Texas Ethics Commission
1-23     who has a duty related to a report required by Title 15, Election
1-24     Code, in a matter pertaining to that duty;
1-25                 (6)  a county tax assessor-collector or an employee of
1-26     the county tax assessor-collector if the oath relates to a document
1-27     that is required or authorized to be filed in the office of the
1-28     county tax assessor-collector;
1-29                 (7)  the secretary of state;
1-30                 (8)  the lieutenant governor;
1-31                 (9)  the speaker of the house of representatives; [or]
1-32                 (10)  the governor; or
1-33                 (11)  the secretary or clerk of a municipality in a
1-34     matter pertaining to the official business of the municipality.
1-35           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41     passage, and it is so enacted.
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