81R426 MTB-D
By: Wentworth S.B. No. 318
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the order of succession to the office of governor.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 401.023(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) If the governor, lieutenant governor, and president pro
tempore of the senate are unavailable, the following officers in
succeeding order shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties
of the office of governor:
(1) the speaker of the house of representatives;
(2) the attorney general; [and]
(3) the comptroller;
(4) the land commissioner; and
(5) the commissioner of agriculture [the chief
justices of the courts of appeals, in the numerical order of the
supreme judicial districts the courts serve].
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, 2009.