H.B. No. 744
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a contract to provide that a justice center on the
    1-3  state line contain a jail annex for which the county in this state
    1-4  and the county in the other state are jointly responsible.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 361.022(b), Local Government Code, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (b)  The contract may provide that the justice center
    1-9  contain:
   1-10              (1)  courtrooms and office space needed by municipal,
   1-11  justice, county, district, and appellate courts;
   1-12              (2)  jail, lockup, jail annex, and other detention
   1-13  facilities;
   1-14              (3)  federal, county, precinct, and municipal offices
   1-15  for prosecuting attorneys and other personnel as needed;
   1-16              (4)  adult or juvenile probation offices;
   1-17              (5)  other offices that either county or either
   1-18  municipality is separately authorized or required to operate or
   1-19  provide; or
   1-20              (6)  parking facilities, dining areas, and other
   1-21  facilities incidental to the operation of the center.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 361.026, Local Government Code, is
   1-23  amended to read as follows:
   1-24        Sec. 361.026.  RESPONSIBILITY FOR OPERATION OF JAIL.  The
    2-1  contract must provide:
    2-2              (1)  that the sheriffs of the two counties are jointly
    2-3  responsible for the operation of any jail, lockup, jail annex, or
    2-4  other detention facility in the justice center and for the custody,
    2-5  care, and treatment of persons in custody in that facility; or
    2-6              (2)  for the employment of a jailer who shall exercise
    2-7  those responsibilities.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.