By Dutton H.B. No. 2557 74R7875 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to establishing the Harris County Law Enforcement Agency. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subtitle C, Title 11, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Chapter 363 to read as follows: 1-6 CHAPTER 363. LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH COUNTY 1-7 AGENCY 1-8 Sec. 363.001. HARRIS COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. (a) 1-9 The Harris County Law Enforcement Agency is established. 1-10 (b) The jurisdiction of the agency covers: 1-11 (1) Harris County; and 1-12 (2) the area that is in a county adjacent to Harris 1-13 County and in a municipality that has a majority of its area 1-14 located in Harris County. 1-15 (c) The agency has the powers and duties: 1-16 (1) assigned by law to a sheriff and a constable; and 1-17 (2) previously performed by: 1-18 (A) a municipality located wholly in Harris 1-19 County; and 1-20 (B) a municipality located partly in Harris 1-21 County and partly in a county adjacent to Harris County if a 1-22 majority of the municipality's area is in Harris County. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the date the 1-24 constitutional amendment proposed by the 74th Legislature, Regular 2-1 Session, 1995, abolishing the office of constable and sheriff and 2-2 certain municipal police departments in Harris County and to 2-3 establish the Harris County Law Enforcement Agency takes effect. 2-4 If that amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no 2-5 effect. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.