Sec. 406.025.  SIGNATURE ON COMMISSIONS AFTER CHANGE IN OFFICE.  If the governor or secretary of state ceases to hold or perform the duties of office, existing stocks of commissions bearing the person's printed name, signature, or facsimile signature may be used until they are exhausted, and the person succeeding to the office or the duties of the office shall have the commissions issued with:
(1)  the obsolete printed name, signature, or facsimile signature struck through;
(2)  the successor's printed name submitted for the obsolete printed name, signature, or facsimile signature;  and
(3)  the inscription "Printed name authorized by law" near the successor's printed name.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 719, Sec. 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.