By:  Allen                                            H.B. No. 2288
       73R6694 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation of charter bus companies.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  (a)  The Railroad Commission of Texas may not
    1-5  require, as a condition of obtaining or retaining a certificate of
    1-6  public convenience and necessity or any other permit, license, or
    1-7  certificate required for doing business in the state, that a bus
    1-8  company providing charter services operate one or more regularly
    1-9  scheduled transportation services.
   1-10        (b)  The Railroad Commission of Texas may adopt rules to
   1-11  regulate bus companies providing charter services except rules in
   1-12  violation of Subsection (a) of this section.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.