1-1     By:  Junell (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)                 H.B. No. 1177
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; April 22, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 22, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to permissible uses of courthouse security fund and
1-10     municipal court building security fund.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Article 102.017(d), Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-13     is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (d)  The clerks of the respective courts shall collect the
1-15     costs and pay them to the county or municipal treasurer, as
1-16     appropriate, or to any other official who discharges the duties
1-17     commonly delegated to the county or municipal treasurer, as
1-18     appropriate, for deposit in a fund to be known as the courthouse
1-19     security fund or a fund to be known as the municipal court building
1-20     security fund, as appropriate.  A fund designated by this
1-21     subsection may be used only to finance [the following] items when
1-22     used for the purpose of providing security services for buildings
1-23     housing a district, county, justice, or municipal court, as
1-24     appropriate, including:
1-25                 (1)  the purchase or repair of X-ray machines and
1-26     conveying systems;
1-27                 (2)  handheld metal detectors;
1-28                 (3)  walkthrough metal detectors;
1-29                 (4)  identification cards and systems;
1-30                 (5)  electronic locking and surveillance equipment;
1-31                 (6)  bailiffs, deputy sheriffs, deputy constables, or
1-32     contract security personnel during times when they are providing
1-33     appropriate security services;
1-34                 (7)  signage;
1-35                 (8)  confiscated weapon inventory and tracking systems;
1-36                 (9)  locks, chains, alarms, or similar [other] security
1-37     devices [hardware]; [or]
1-38                 (10)  the purchase or repair of bullet-proof glass; and
1-39                 (11)  continuing education on security issues for court
1-40     personnel and security personnel.
1-41           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47     passage, and it is so enacted.
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