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.

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