By: Duncan S.B. No. 792
(Branch)
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. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 405.019,
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.