| 1 | | - | H.B. No. 3609 |
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| 1 | + | By: Martinez Fischer (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 3609 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2019; |
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| 3 | + | May 14, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & |
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| 4 | + | Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | + | Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 4 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 11 | | relating to the filing of an assumed name certificate by certain |
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| 6 | 12 | | business entities. |
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| 7 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 8 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 71.103(a), Business & Commerce Code, is |
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| 9 | 15 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 10 | 16 | | (a) A [The] corporation, limited partnership, limited |
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| 11 | 17 | | liability partnership, limited liability company, or foreign |
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| 12 | 18 | | filing entity required to file a certificate under Section 71.101 |
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| 13 | 19 | | shall file the certificate in the office of the secretary of state |
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| 14 | 20 | | [and in the office or offices of each county clerk as specified by |
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| 15 | 21 | | Subsection (b) or (c)]. |
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| 16 | 22 | | SECTION 2. Sections 71.103(b) and (c) and 71.104(b), |
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| 17 | 23 | | Business & Commerce Code, are repealed. |
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| 18 | 24 | | SECTION 3. The repeal by this Act of Sections 71.103(b) and |
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| 19 | 25 | | (c) and 71.104(b), Business & Commerce Code, and the changes in law |
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| 20 | 26 | | made by this Act to Section 71.103(a), Business & Commerce Code, |
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| 21 | 27 | | apply only to an offense under Section 71.202, Business & Commerce |
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| 22 | 28 | | Code, committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An |
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| 23 | 29 | | offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed |
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| 24 | 30 | | by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and that |
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| 25 | 31 | | law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this |
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| 26 | 32 | | section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this |
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| 27 | 33 | | Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. |
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| 28 | 34 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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| 29 | | - | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 30 | | - | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 31 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 3609 was passed by the House on May 7, |
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| 32 | | - | 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not |
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| 33 | | - | voting. |
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| 34 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 35 | | - | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 36 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 3609 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 37 | | - | 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 38 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 39 | | - | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 40 | | - | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 41 | | - | Date |
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| 42 | | - | _____________________ |
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| 43 | | - | Governor |
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