By Cuellar of Webb                                    H.B. No. 3085
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the acquisition and operation of county jail facilities
    1-3  and declaring an emergency.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 351.102 of the Local Government Code is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 351.102.  Additional Authority to Contract.  The
    1-8  commissioners court of a county may contract with a private vendor
    1-9  to provide for the financing, design, construction, leasing,
   1-10  operation, purchase, maintenance, or management of a jail,
   1-11  detention center, work camp, or related facility. The commissioners
   1-12  court may not award a contract under this section unless the
   1-13  commissioners court requests proposals by public notice and not
   1-14  less than 30 days from such notice receives a proposal that meets
   1-15  or exceeds the requirements specified in the request for proposals.
   1-16  Before the commissioners court of a county enters into a contract
   1-17  under this section the commissioners court of the county must
   1-18  receive the written approval of the sheriff of the county, which
   1-19  written approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.  If the
   1-20  services provided under the contract are required to meet or exceed
   1-21  standards promulgated by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and
   1-22  the requirements of this subchapter, the approval of the county
   1-23  sheriff shall be deemed unnecessary.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  The important of this legislation and the crowded
    2-2  condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
    2-3  an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
    2-4  requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
    2-5  suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, ant that this Act
    2-6  take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
    2-7  so enacted.