By Gallego H.B. No. 1339 76R5802 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to intermodal transportation planning by the Texas 1-3 Department of Transportation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 201, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 201.208 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 201.208. INTERMODAL PLANNING FUNCTION. Notwithstanding 1-8 any other law, the department is designated as the state's planning 1-9 agency for intermodal transportation, including highways, airports, 1-10 railroads, and seaports for purposes of federal law. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.