By Ramsay                                             H.B. No. 3207
         76R7254 SMJ-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirement for insurance coverage for district
 1-3     clerks.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 51.302(c), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  Each district clerk shall obtain an insurance policy or
 1-8     similar coverage from a governmental pool operating under Chapter
 1-9     119, Local Government Code, or from a governmental unit under
1-10     Chapter 1084, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987
1-11     (Article 715c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), to cover the
1-12     district clerk and any deputy clerk against liabilities incurred
1-13     through errors or omissions in the performance of official duties
1-14     and losses from burglary, theft, robbery, counterfeit currency, or
1-15     destruction.  The amount of the policy or coverage must be in an
1-16     amount equal to the maximum amount of fees collected in any year
1-17     during the term of office immediately preceding the term for which
1-18     the insurance is obtained, except that the amount of the policy or
1-19     other coverage document may not be for less than $20,000 [$10,000]
1-20     nor more than $700,000.  If the policy or other coverage document
1-21     provides coverage for other county officials, the amount of the
1-22     policy must be at least $1 million.
1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 51.302(e), Government Code, is repealed.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.