82R7774 YDB-F
 
  By: Duncan S.B. No. 792
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the duties of the secretary of state.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 405.017, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 405.017.  MISCELLANEOUS DUTIES. The secretary of state
  shall:
               (1)  affix the state seal to all official documents
  issued from the secretary of state's office;
               (2)  unless provided otherwise by law, commission state
  officers;
               (3)  keep [in a separate suitable book] a register of
  all state officers;
               (4)  immediately on receipt, deliver to the person in
  charge of the state library all books, maps, charts, printed
  volumes of the laws of a nation, territory, or another state, or
  other political or miscellaneous publications received in the
  secretary of state's office;
               (5)  immediately on receipt, deliver to the supreme
  court librarian reports of courts of a nation, territory, or
  another state received in the secretary of state's office; and
               (6)  perform such other and further duties as may be
  directed by the governor.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 405.019(b) and (c), Government Code,
  are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The secretary of state shall make [send] the list
  available to [each of] the county clerks of this state before
  January 1 of each year.
         (c)  The secretary of state shall amend the list and make 
  [immediately send] the amended list available to the county clerks
  of this state if the secretary learns that a state or territory has
  changed its requirements relating to a notary public in a manner
  that requires it to be added to or deleted from the list.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.