By: Telford H.B. No. 744 73R4098 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to contracts for a justice center located on a state line. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 361.022(b), Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (b) The contract may provide that the justice center 1-7 contain: 1-8 (1) courtrooms and office space needed by municipal, 1-9 justice, county, district, and appellate courts; 1-10 (2) jail, lockup, justice center jail annex, and other 1-11 detention facilities; 1-12 (3) federal, county, precinct, and municipal offices 1-13 for prosecuting attorneys and other personnel as needed; 1-14 (4) adult or juvenile probation offices; 1-15 (5) other offices that either county or either 1-16 municipality is separately authorized or required to operate or 1-17 provide; or 1-18 (6) parking facilities, dining areas, and other 1-19 facilities incidental to the operation of the center. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.