By Elkins H.B. No. 2405
74R7262 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to municipal court proceedings in a municipality
1-3 participating with another municipality in a joint police
1-4 department contract.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 29, Government Code, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 29.105 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 29.105. MUNICIPAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN MUNICIPALITY
1-9 PARTICIPATING IN POLICE DEPARTMENT CONTRACT. The municipal court
1-10 of a municipality that contracts with one or more municipalities
1-11 for the operation of a joint police department may conduct its
1-12 proceedings within the municipal limits of any municipality that is
1-13 a party to the contract.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-21 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-22 Amend House Bill 2405 by striking lines 8 through 13 on page
1-23 1 and substituting the following:
1-24 Sec. 29.105. MUNICIPAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN MUNICIPALITY
2-1 PARTICIPATING IN POLICE DEPARTMENT CONTRACT. A municipality that
2-2 contracts with one or more municipalities for the operation of a
2-3 joint police department may conduct its municipal court proceedings
2-4 within the municipal limits of any municipality that is a party to
2-5 the contract.
2-6 Goodman