Bill Text: TX HCR135 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.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) 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. |