By: Hughes (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 3003
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011;
  May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Intergovernmental Relations; May 19, 2011, reported favorably by
  the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the issuance of an identification card to certain
  individuals to permit entrance into certain county buildings
  without passing through security services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 291.010(a), Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The commissioners court of a county [with a population
  of 2.8 million or more] by order may:
               (1)  authorize the issuance of an identification card
  to individuals permitting entrance into a county building that
  houses a justice court, county court, county court at law, or
  district court without passing through the security services
  provided under Article 102.017, Code of Criminal Procedure; and
               (2)  set a reasonable fee for the issuance of the
  identification card to individuals other than county employees.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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