Bill Text: TX HCR135 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to adopting a Joint Rule of the Senate and House of Representatives assigning to each bill passed by the legislature a legislative act number.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-13 - Received from the House [HCR135 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HCR135-Engrossed.html
By: Bonnen of Galveston | H.C.R. No. 135 |
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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) Beginning in the 87th | ||
Regular Legislative Session, after a bill has finally passed both | ||
houses of the legislature, the clerk of the house or secretary of | ||
the senate will enroll the bill and shall assign a Texas Legislative | ||
Act number utilizing existing enrollment technology shared by both | ||
chambers. | ||
(b) Each enrolled bill shall include 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. | ||
(c) Subsection (b) does not prohibit the responsible | ||
officer from including the originating house's bill number in the | ||
certification of the bill's passage. | ||
(d) Once a Texas Legislative Act number has been assigned, | ||
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. | ||
(e) The Texas Legislative Act number shall be published and | ||
maintained in the electronic legislative information system 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. |