By Gallegos                                            S.B. No. 386
       74R4214 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to prohibiting certain counties from contracting with a
    1-3  nongovernmental association for the provision of law enforcement
    1-4  services by the county.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  The heading of Subchapter D, Chapter 351, Local
    1-7  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-8         SUBCHAPTER D.  CONTRACTS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES
    1-9                   ON FEE BASIS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 351.061, Local Government Code, is
   1-11  amended to read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 351.061.  Authority to Contract.  To protect the public
   1-13  interest, the commissioners court of a county with a population of
   1-14  less than 2.8 million may contract with a nongovernmental
   1-15  association for the provision of law enforcement services by the
   1-16  county on a fee basis in the geographical area represented by the
   1-17  association.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.