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.