1-1  By:  Sibley                                            S.R. No. 212
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 14, 1995; February 14, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  April 4, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 4, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                           SENATE RESOLUTION
    1-7        WHEREAS, The United States Congress recently passed the
    1-8  Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of
    1-9  1994, Public Law 103-328; and
   1-10        WHEREAS, That Act authorizes interstate banking throughout
   1-11  the United States and creates interstate branch banking; and
   1-12        WHEREAS, The Act provides that a state may choose to opt out
   1-13  of the Act before its implementation June 1, 1997; now, therefore,
   1-14  be it
   1-15        RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 74th
   1-16  Legislature, hereby request that the Congress of the United States
   1-17  report to the Texas Legislature all the states which choose to opt
   1-18  out of interstate branch banking before June 1, 1997; and, be it
   1-19  further
   1-20        RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official
   1-21  copies of this resolution to the Speaker of the House of
   1-22  Representatives of the United States Congress, to the President of
   1-23  the Senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the
   1-24  Texas delegation to the congress, with the request that this
   1-25  resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record of the
   1-26  Congress of the United States.
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