By Wilson                                              H.B. No. 699
         76R2590 WP-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to warning visitors to Mexico of Mexican laws prohibiting
 1-3     transportation of firearms and ammunition.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 201.907 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 201.907.  BORDER CROSSING WARNING SIGNS.  The department
 1-8     shall post and maintain signs at crossings of the border between
 1-9     this state and Mexico providing notice of Mexico's law prohibiting
1-10     transportation of firearms and ammunition.  The signs shall be
1-11     designed by the department and shall contain information the
1-12     department determines necessary to provide adequate warning to
1-13     visitors of Mexico, including any penalties Mexican law may
1-14     prescribe for an offense.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.