By George                                             H.B. No. 1307
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the fee for the electronic filing of a financing
 1-3     statement with the secretary of state.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.   Subchapter D, Chapter 9, Business & Commerce
 1-6     Code, is amended by adding Section 9.4095 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 9.4095.  FEE FOR ELECTRONIC FILING.  The fee for filing,
 1-8     indexing, and returning an electronic confirmation of a financing
 1-9     statement or other filing transmitted electronically in accordance
1-10     with rules adopted under this subchapter is $5.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.