Title GV, Government Code

Sec. 304.006. STATUS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF EMERGENCY INTERIM SUCCESSORS. (a) An emergency interim successor is an individual who is designated for possible temporary succession to the powers and duties, but not the office, of a legislator. (b) An individual may not be designated …

Sec. 304.007. OATH. When the designation of an emergency interim successor becomes effective, the successor shall take the oath required for the legislator to whose powers and duties the successor is designated to succeed, and no other oath is required. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. …

Sec. 304.008. ASSUMPTION OF POWERS AND DUTIES. (a) If the governor has declared an emergency due to enemy attack or the immediate threat of enemy attack under Section 62, Article III, Texas Constitution, and the lieutenant governor or speaker of the house, as applicable, determin…

Sec. 304.009. PRIVILEGES, IMMUNITIES, AND COMPENSATION. (a) An emergency interim successor who exercises the powers and assumes the duties of an unavailable legislator is entitled to the privileges, immunities, compensation, and other allowances to which a legislator is entitled.…

Sec. 304.010. DUTY TO REMAIN INFORMED. Each emergency interim successor shall keep himself generally informed as to the duties, procedures, practices, and current business of the legislature, and each legislator shall assist his emergency interim successors to keep themselves inf…

Sec. 304.011. QUORUM; VOTES. In the event of an attack, the quorum requirements imposed on the legislature are suspended. If the affirmative vote of a specified proportion of members is required to approve a bill or resolution, the same proportion of those present and voting on t…