Bill Text: TX SB792 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the duties of the secretary of state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB792-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the duties of the secretary of state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB792-Comm_Sub.html
By: Duncan | S.B. No. 792 | |
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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 [ |
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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. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 405.019, | ||
Government Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The secretary of state shall make [ |
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available to [ |
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January 1 of each year. | ||
(c) The secretary of state shall amend the list and make | ||
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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. |