By Thompson H.B. No. 1167
76R2199 DAK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an employee of a personal bond office administering
1-3 oaths to or taking an acknowledgment or proof of a written
1-4 instrument from personal bond applicants.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 602.002, Government Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 602.002. OATH MADE IN TEXAS. An oath made in this
1-9 state may be administered and a certificate of the fact given by:
1-10 (1) a judge, clerk, or commissioner of a court of
1-11 record;
1-12 (2) a justice of the peace or a clerk of a justice
1-13 court;
1-14 (3) a notary public;
1-15 (4) a member of a board or commission created by a law
1-16 of this state, in a matter pertaining to a duty of the board or
1-17 commission;
1-18 (5) a person employed by the Texas Ethics Commission
1-19 who has a duty related to a report required by Title 15, Election
1-20 Code, in a matter pertaining to that duty;
1-21 (6) a county tax assessor-collector or an employee of
1-22 the county tax assessor-collector if the oath relates to a document
1-23 that is required or authorized to be filed in the office of the
1-24 county tax assessor-collector;
2-1 (7) an employee of a personal bond office if the oath
2-2 is required or authorized by Article 17.04, Code of Criminal
2-3 Procedure;
2-4 (8) the secretary of state;
2-5 (9) [(8)] the lieutenant governor;
2-6 (10) [(9)] the speaker of the house of
2-7 representatives; or
2-8 (11) [(10)] the governor.
2-9 SECTION 2. Section 121.001(a), Civil Practice and Remedies
2-10 Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-11 (a) An acknowledgment or proof of a written instrument may
2-12 be taken in this state by:
2-13 (1) a clerk of a district court;
2-14 (2) a judge or clerk of a county court;
2-15 (3) a notary public; [or]
2-16 (4) a county tax assessor-collector or an employee of
2-17 the county tax assessor-collector if the instrument is required or
2-18 authorized to be filed in the office of the county tax
2-19 assessor-collector; or
2-20 (5) an employee of a personal bond office if the
2-21 acknowledgment or proof of a written instrument is required or
2-22 authorized by Article 17.04, Code of Criminal Procedure.
2-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.