By Truan S.B. No. 566 75R1647 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring the Texas Department of Transportation to 1-3 conduct a study on the highway transportation needs of the state 1-4 because of increased international trade under the North American 1-5 Free Trade Agreement. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. (a) The Texas Department of Transportation 1-8 shall conduct a study on the origin and destination of goods 1-9 transported over highways in this state. The department shall 1-10 specifically study the increase in commercial traffic because of 1-11 the North American Free Trade Agreement and identify the highways 1-12 that need to be designated for construction, expansion, and 1-13 maintenance because of the increase in international trade. The 1-14 department shall consider the costs necessary to accomplish the 1-15 highway improvements. 1-16 (b) The department shall, not later than December 15, 1998, 1-17 file a written report with the lieutenant governor and the speaker 1-18 of the house of representatives detailing the results of the study 1-19 conducted under Subsection (a) of this section. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.