By: Leedom S.B. No. 1402 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the regulation of charter bus companies. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. (a) The Railroad Commission of Texas may not 1-4 require, as a condition of obtaining or retaining a certificate of 1-5 public convenience and necessity or any other permit, license, or 1-6 certificate required for doing business in the state, that a bus 1-7 company providing charter services operate one or more regularly 1-8 scheduled transportation services. 1-9 (b) The Railroad Commission of Texas may adopt rules to 1-10 regulate bus companies providing charter services except rules in 1-11 violation of Subsection (a) of this section. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.