By Tillery                                            H.B. No. 1274
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the administration of oaths in this state by certain
 1-3     judges and clerks.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 602.002, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 602.002.  OATH MADE IN TEXAS.  An oath made in this
 1-8     state may be administered and a certificate of the fact given by:
 1-9                 (1)  a judge or a clerk of a municipal court, in a
1-10     matter pertaining to a duty of the court;
1-11                 (2)  a judge, clerk, or commissioner of a court of
1-12     record;
1-13                 (3) [(2)]  a justice of the peace or a clerk of a
1-14     justice court;
1-15                 (4) [(3)]  a notary public;
1-16                 (5) [(4)]  a member of a board or commission created by
1-17     a law of this state, in a matter pertaining to a duty of the board
1-18     or commission;
1-19                 (6) [(5)]  a person employed by the Texas Ethics
1-20     Commission who has a duty related to a report required by Title 15,
1-21     Election Code, in a matter pertaining to that duty;
1-22                 (7) [(6)]  a county tax assessor-collector or an
1-23     employee of the county tax assessor-collector if the oath relates
1-24     to a document that is required or authorized to be filed in the
 2-1     office of the county tax assessor-collector;
 2-2                 (8) [(7)]  the secretary of state;
 2-3                 (9) [(8)]  the lieutenant governor;
 2-4                 (10) [(9)]  the speaker of the house of
 2-5     representatives; or
 2-6                 (11) [(10)]  the governor.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13     passage, and it is so enacted.