82R7774 YDB-F
By: Duncan S.B. No. 792
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 [in a separate suitable book] a register of
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. Sections 405.019(b) and (c), Government Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(b) The secretary of state shall make [send] the list
available to [each of] the county clerks of this state before
January 1 of each year.
(c) The secretary of state shall amend the list and make
[immediately send] the amended list available to the county clerks
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.