By: Truan, Parker S.B. No. 1392 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to establishment of the Texas Coastal Observation Network 1-2 for collection of coastal management data. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. The Texas Coastal Observation Network is 1-5 established as a cooperative project of Texas A&M 1-6 University--Corpus Christi, Lamar University, the Texas Water 1-7 Development Board, and the General Land Office. The network shall 1-8 collect data on natural processes affecting the coast for the 1-9 purpose of studying, planning for, and managing human uses of the 1-10 coast as they are affected by those natural processes. The 1-11 participating state entities shall coordinate the project with the 1-12 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, other appropriate 1-13 federal entities, and private entities. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.