By Thompson                                           H.B. No. 1168
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to security services in certain court buildings.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 291, Local Government Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Section 291.010 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 291.010.  SECURITY SERVICES IDENTIFICATION CARD.  (a)
 1-7     The commissioners court of a county by order may:
 1-8                 (1)  authorize the issuance of an identification card
 1-9     to individuals permitting entrance into a county building that
1-10     houses a justice court, county court, county court at law, or
1-11     district court without passing through the security services
1-12     provided under Article 102.017, Code of Criminal Procedure; and
1-13                 (2)  set a reasonable fee for the issuance of the
1-14     identification card to individuals other than county employees.
1-15           (b)  The commissioners court shall adopt standards for
1-16     issuing an identification card described by this section to ensure
1-17     public safety and security.
1-18           SECTION 2.  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,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.