1-1 By: Truan, Carona S.B. No. 566 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 1997; February 17, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on International 1-4 Relations, Trade, and Technology; March 17, 1997, reported 1-5 favorably, as amended, by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; 1-6 March 17, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Truan 1-8 Amend S.B. No. 566 on page 1, line 30, by adding the following: 1-9 The department may base a portion of this study on prior 1-10 department studies if these studies provide substantially accurate 1-11 data and address a relevant or designated issue for study in this 1-12 Act. The department, to reduce the overall cost of this study, may 1-13 enlist the services of available university support to aid the 1-14 department in its research, if it so chooses. 1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-16 AN ACT 1-17 relating to requiring the Texas Department of Transportation to 1-18 conduct a study on the highway transportation needs of the state 1-19 because of increased international trade under the North American 1-20 Free Trade Agreement. 1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-22 SECTION 1. (a) The Texas Department of Transportation 1-23 shall conduct a study on the origin and destination of goods 1-24 transported over highways in this state. The department shall 1-25 specifically study the increase in commercial traffic because of 1-26 the North American Free Trade Agreement and identify the highways 1-27 that need to be designated for construction, expansion, and 1-28 maintenance because of the increase in international trade. The 1-29 department shall consider the costs necessary to accomplish the 1-30 highway improvements. 1-31 (b) The department shall, not later than December 15, 1998, 1-32 file a written report with the lieutenant governor and the speaker 1-33 of the house of representatives detailing the results of the study 1-34 conducted under Subsection (a) of this section. 1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-41 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-42 * * * * *