1-1     By:  Tillery (Senate Sponsor - Carona)                H.B. No. 1274
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-3     April 12, 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 8, Nays 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the administration of oaths in this state by certain
 1-9     judges and clerks.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 602.002, Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 602.002.  OATH MADE IN TEXAS.  An oath made in this
1-14     state may be administered and a certificate of the fact given by:
1-15                 (1)  a judge or a clerk of a municipal court, in a
1-16     matter pertaining to a duty of the court;
1-17                 (2)  a judge, clerk, or commissioner of a court of
1-18     record;
1-19                 (3) [(2)]  a justice of the peace or a clerk of a
1-20     justice court;
1-21                 (4) [(3)]  a notary public;
1-22                 (5) [(4)]  a member of a board or commission created by
1-23     a law of this state, in a matter pertaining to a duty of the board
1-24     or commission;
1-25                 (6) [(5)]  a person employed by the Texas Ethics
1-26     Commission who has a duty related to a report required by Title 15,
1-27     Election Code, in a matter pertaining to that duty;
1-28                 (7) [(6)]  a county tax assessor-collector or an
1-29     employee of the county tax assessor-collector if the oath relates
1-30     to a document that is required or authorized to be filed in the
1-31     office of the county tax assessor-collector;
1-32                 (8) [(7)]  the secretary of state;
1-33                 (9) [(8)]  the lieutenant governor;
1-34                 (10) [(9)]  the speaker of the house of
1-35     representatives; or
1-36                 (11) [(10)]  the governor.
1-37           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-38     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-42     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-43     passage, and it is so enacted.
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