By Truan S.B. No. 567 75R1645 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring the comptroller to conduct a study on the 1-3 economic effects of the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern 1-4 Pacific railroads. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. (a) The comptroller shall, in conjunction with 1-7 the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University, conduct 1-8 a study of the economic effects in Texas of the merger of the Union 1-9 Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. The study shall 1-10 specifically include the merger's effect on the cost and 1-11 availability of rail transportation between Texas and Mexico and 1-12 the impact of the merger on trade with Mexico. 1-13 (b) The comptroller shall, not later than December 15, 1998, 1-14 file a written report with the lieutenant governor and the speaker 1-15 of the house of representatives detailing the results of the study 1-16 conducted under Subsection (a) of this section. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.