Bill Text: TX SB1572 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the character of and citation to enacted legislation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1572 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1572-Introduced.html
| 83R5165 JSA-D | ||
| By: Patrick | S.B. No. 1572 | |
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| relating to the character of and citation to enacted legislation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 3, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 312A to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 312A. GENERAL PROVISION | ||
| Sec. 312A.001. NATURE OF AND REFERENCE TO LEGISLATIVE | ||
| ENACTMENTS. (a) When all requirements of law have been met for a | ||
| bill passed by both houses of the legislature to become law, | ||
| including action of the governor and any subsequent action of the | ||
| legislature under Section 14, Article IV, Texas Constitution, the | ||
| measure becomes an Act of the legislature and should no longer be | ||
| referred to as a bill or cited by reference to its former bill | ||
| number or author. | ||
| (b) To the extent practicable, in official documents and | ||
| publications an Act of the legislature should be cited by reference | ||
| to the chapter number assigned by the secretary of state under | ||
| Section 405.014 or to the statutory designation of the law enacted | ||
| or amended by the Act, without reference to the bill by which the | ||
| legislature enacted that law. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
