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Senate Bill 569 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: 6-17-05 |
House Sponsor: Guillen et al. |
Senate Bill 569 amends the Transportation Code to require the Texas Department of Transportation to initiate efforts to meet at least quarterly, rather than semiannually, with the department's counterparts in the Mexican states bordering Texas to discuss issues relating to truck inspections and transportation and infrastructure involved in truck inspections and transportation. The bill requires the department to contact the border commerce coordinator and the mayor of each municipality in this state in which a port of entry for land traffic is located to assist in this effort and requires at least one department participant in a meeting to be proficient in Spanish. The bill requires the department, in conjunction with the border commerce coordinator, to develop short-range and long-range plans, including recommendations to increase bilateral relations with Mexico and expedite trade and to consider information obtained from the meetings described by this bill in developing the plans. The bill also requires the department to update the plan biennially and submit the updated plan to the lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and each member of the legislature on or before December 1 of each even-numbered year.