By: Martinez Fischer (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 3609
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2019;
May 14, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the filing of an assumed name certificate by certain
business entities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 71.103(a), Business & Commerce Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A [The] corporation, limited partnership, limited
liability partnership, limited liability company, or foreign
filing entity required to file a certificate under Section 71.101
shall file the certificate in the office of the secretary of state
[and in the office or offices of each county clerk as specified by
Subsection (b) or (c)].
SECTION 2. Sections 71.103(b) and (c) and 71.104(b),
Business & Commerce Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. The repeal by this Act of Sections 71.103(b) and
(c) and 71.104(b), Business & Commerce Code, and the changes in law
made by this Act to Section 71.103(a), Business & Commerce Code,
apply only to an offense under Section 71.202, Business & Commerce
Code, committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An
offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed
by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and that
law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this
section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this
Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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