By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 479
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the fee for the electronic filing of a financing
 1-2     statement with the secretary of state.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 9, Business & Commerce
 1-5     Code, is amended by adding Section 9.4095 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 9.4095.  FEE FOR ELECTRONIC FILING.  The fee for filing,
 1-7     indexing, and returning an electronic confirmation of a financing
 1-8     statement or other filing transmitted electronically in accordance
 1-9     with rules adopted under this subchapter is $5.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.