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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