By Pitts                                              H.B. No. 3099
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the powers and duties of the Texas National Research
    1-3  Laboratory.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 465.008(a) is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The commission is the authority in the state for
    1-7  formulation and presentation of the siting proposal on behalf of
    1-8  the state for the superconducting super collider research facility
    1-9  sponsored and authorized by the United States government.  The
   1-10  commission shall coordinate the development of the plan or proposal
   1-11  with other state, federal, and local agencies and institutions of
   1-12  higher education charged with development of and interest in
   1-13  locating the facility in the state and converting the facility to
   1-14  other uses in the event the project is cancelled by the United
   1-15  States government.  State agencies and local governmental entities
   1-16  shall cooperate to the extent possible to accomplish the
   1-17  commissioner's duties.  <If Texas is selected for the site of t>
   1-18  The facility the commission shall represent the state in the
   1-19  facility's development, financing <and> operation<.> and
   1-20  conversion.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.