By: Bonnen of Galveston H.C.R. No. 135
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas,
That the following Joint Rule is adopted and becomes effective
immediately upon adoption by the house last adopting this
resolution:
JOINT RULE 1
Section 1. ENROLLING BILLS. (a) After a bill has finally
passed both houses of the legislature, the officer of the house or
senate who is responsible for enrolling the bill shall notify the
director of the Legislative Reference Library of the final passage
of the bill.
(b) In the order of receiving notice of the final passage of
the bill from the officer responsible for enrolling the bill, the
director shall assign the bill a Texas Legislative Act number and
shall promptly notify the responsible officer of the Texas
Legislative Act number assigned to the bill.
(c) The responsible officer shall then enroll the bill,
including all proper endorsements, as a Texas Legislative Act and:
(1) shall include the Texas Legislative Act number on
the face of the enrolled bill; and
(2) shall not include the originating house's bill
number on the face of the bill.
(d) Subsection (c) does not prohibit the responsible
officer from including the originating house's bill number in the
certification of the bill's passage.
(e) Once a Texas Legislative Act number has been assigned by
the director, all future references to the enrolled bill in the
journals of each house and in messages to the other house and the
governor shall use only the Texas Legislative Act number.
(f) The director shall publish and maintain in the
electronic legislative information system the Texas Legislative
Act number for each enrolled bill enacted for each session and index
those numbers by bill number and, when assigned by the secretary of
state, the session law chapter number for each Texas Act.