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.