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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