By Brimer                                             H.B. No. 2846
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a requirement that a county sheriff provide to the
 1-3     commissioners court of the county certain contracts regarding the
 1-4     county jail commissary.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 351.0415, Local Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-8           (e)  The sheriff of a county shall provide to the
 1-9     commissioners court of the county each contract the sheriff makes
1-10     under this section relating to the commissary.  The sheriff shall
1-11     provide the contract within 10 days after the date the contract is
1-12     made.
1-13           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act by the
1-14     addition of Section 351.0415(e), Local Government Code, applies
1-15     only to a contract made on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-16     A contract made before the effective date of this Act is governed
1-17     by the law in effect when the contract was made, and the former law
1-18     is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.