Bill Text: TX HB3765 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the cost of requesting electronic copies of documents from a district clerk.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-26 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB3765 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB3765-Introduced.html

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89R13996 BCH-F
By: Bumgarner H.B. No. 3765

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the cost of requesting electronic copies of documents
from a district clerk.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.318(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The fees are:
(1) for issuing a subpoena, including one copy ......
$8;
(2) for issuing a citation, commission for deposition,
writ of execution, order of sale, writ of execution and order of
sale, writ of injunction, writ of garnishment, writ of attachment,
or writ of sequestration, or any other writ or process not otherwise
provided for, including one copy if required by law ...... $8;
(3) for searching files or records to locate a cause
when the docket number is not provided or to ascertain the existence
of an instrument or record in the district clerk's office ...... $5;
(4) for abstracting a judgment ...... $8;
(5) for preparation of the clerk's record on appeal,
for each page or part of a page ...... $1;
(6) for approving a bond ...... $5;
(7) for a certified copy of a record, judgment, order,
pleading, or paper on file or of record in the district clerk's
office:
(A) including certificate and seal ...... $5; and
(B) for each page or part of a page:
(i) printed on paper ...... $1; or
(ii) that is a paper document converted to
electronic format ...... $1; [or
[(iii) that is an electronic copy of an
electronic document:
[(a) for a document up to 10 pages in
length ...... $1; and
[(b) for each page or part of a page
over 10 pages ...... $0.10;]
(8) for a noncertified copy:
(A) printed on paper, for each page or part of a
page ...... $1; or
(B) that is a paper document converted to
electronic format, for each page or part of a page ...... $1; and
[or
[(C) that is an electronic copy of an electronic
document:
[(i) for each document up to 10 pages in
length ...... $1; and
[(ii) for each page or part of a page over
10 pages ...... $0.10;]
(9) for preparation of the clerk's record of transfer
under Sections 33.105 and 1023.006, Estates Code, Section 155.207,
Family Code, and Sections 51.3071 and 51.403 of this code:
(A) for the clerk's transfer certificate and
index ...... $5;
(B) for each page or part of a page of a case
record up to 10 pages in length ...... $1.00; and
(C) for each page or part of a page of a case
record over 10 pages ...... $0.10.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.