(a) The secretary of state shall receive the printed and bound volumes of the Supreme Court Reports and the Reports of the Court of Criminal Appeals from the supreme court reporter.
(b) The secretary of state may sell single copies of these reports for a price equal to the contract price for printing, excluding postage or express charges, and, after receiving the price for a volume, may send advance sheets of the volume as publishing progresses.

Terms Used In Texas Government Code 405.013

  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Comptroller: means the state comptroller of public accounts. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005

(c) The secretary of state shall deliver money received from sales under this section to the comptroller and shall make a full statement of the sales in the secretary of state’s biennial report.
(d) The secretary of state shall deliver one copy of these reports to:
(1) the governor;
(2) the attorney general;
(3) each appellate and district judge;
(4) each county judge, for the use of the county;
(5) each law professor of The University of Texas; and
(6) the librarian of The University of Texas.
(e) The secretary of state shall deliver to each United States district judge for Texas one copy of these reports for each branch of the judge’s court.
(f) The secretary of state may not send more than one copy of a report to a person under Subsection (d) or (e) unless it is proved, as evidenced by certificate of the person requesting the additional copy, that the first copy of the report has been destroyed by fire or rendered valueless by long use.

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