Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 913 amends the Transportation Code to require the Texas Department of Transportation to establish border inspection stations along major highways at or near border crossings from Mexico in the cities of Brownsville, Laredo, and El Paso so that all federal, state, and municipal agencies that regulate the passage of persons or vehicles across the border may be located in one place. The department must establish a one-stop border inspection station only if the federal agencies that regulate the passage of persons and motor vehicles at border crossings agree to the design of and to use the facilities. The act also authorizes the department to lease office space at the inspection facilities to the federal agencies.