By: West  S.B. No. 251
         (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2013; January 29, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
  February 6, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
  5, Nays 0; February 6, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to an unsworn declaration made by an employee of a state
  agency or political subdivision in the performance of the
  employee's job duties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 132.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
  Code, is amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection
  (f) to read as follows:
         (d)  Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (e) and
  (f), an unsworn declaration made under this section must include a
  jurat in substantially the following form:
               "My name is __________ _________ ____________, my
                              (First)  (Middle)    (Last)
         date of birth is _________________, and my address is
         _____________, ____________, _________, _________,
            (Street)       (City)      (State)  (Zip Code)
         and __________________. I declare  under  penalty  of
                  (Country)
         perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
               Executed in _______ County, State of ________, on
  the ________ day of ________, ________.
                               (Month)   (Year)
  ____________________
  Declarant"
         (f)  An unsworn declaration made under this section by an
  employee of a state agency or a political subdivision in the
  performance of the employee's job duties, must include a jurat in
  substantially the following form:
               "My name is ___________  __________  ___________,
                              (First)       (Middle)        (Last)
         and I am an employee of the following governmental
  agency: __________________. I am executing this
  declaration as part of my assigned duties and
  responsibilities.  I declare under penalty of perjury
  that the foregoing is true and correct.
               Executed in _____________ County, State of
  _________, on the _____ day of ________, _______.
                                           (Month)    (Year)
  ____________________
  Declarant"
         SECTION 2.  Subsection (f), Section 132.001, Civil Practice
  and Remedies Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an unsworn
  declaration executed on or after the effective date of this Act. An
  unsworn declaration executed before the effective date of this Act
  is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective
  date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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