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 Section 51.302(e), Government Code, is repealed.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.