By Tillery H.B. No. 1274
76R5210 MLS-D
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.