1-1 By: Telford (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 744
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 30, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; March 31, 1993, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 31, 1993, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to a contract to provide a justice center on the state
1-23 line.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 361.022(b), Local Government Code, is
1-26 amended to read as follows:
1-27 (b) The contract may provide that the justice center
1-28 contain:
1-29 (1) courtrooms and office space needed by municipal,
1-30 justice, county, district, and appellate courts;
1-31 (2) jail, lockup, jail annex, and other detention
1-32 facilities;
1-33 (3) federal, county, precinct, and municipal offices
1-34 for prosecuting attorneys and other personnel as needed;
1-35 (4) adult or juvenile probation offices;
1-36 (5) other offices that either county or either
1-37 municipality is separately authorized or required to operate or
1-38 provide; or
1-39 (6) parking facilities, dining areas, and other
1-40 facilities incidental to the operation of the center.
1-41 SECTION 2. Section 361.026, Local Government Code, is
1-42 amended to read as follows:
1-43 Sec. 361.026. RESPONSIBILITY FOR OPERATION OF JAIL. The
1-44 contract must provide:
1-45 (1) that the sheriffs of the two counties are jointly
1-46 responsible for the operation of any jail, lockup, jail annex, or
1-47 other detention facility in the justice center and for the custody,
1-48 care, and treatment of persons in custody in that facility; or
1-49 (2) for the employment of a jailer who shall exercise
1-50 those responsibilities.
1-51 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-56 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-57 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 Austin,
1-60 Texas
1-61 March 31, 1993
1-62 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-63 President of the Senate
1-64 Sir:
1-65 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-66 referred H.B. No. 744, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-67 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-68 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
2-1 Armbrister,
2-2 Chairman
2-3 * * * * *
2-4 WITNESSES
2-5 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 744.