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Amend CSHB 1495 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 161.002(8), Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
(8) "County public servant" means a person elected, selected, appointed, employed, or otherwise designated as one of the following, even if the person has not yet qualified for or assumed the duties of office:
(A) a county officer or county employee;
(B) a person appointed by the commissioners court or a county officer to a position on one of the following, whether the position is compensated or not:
(i) an authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, district, division, or office of the county; or
(ii) a multi-jurisdictional board;
(C) an attorney at law or notary public when participating in the performance of a governmental function; or
(D) [a candidate for nomination or election to an elected county office; or
[(E)] a person who is performing a governmental function under a claim of right although the person is not legally qualified or authorized to do so.