By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 2809
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring a grain transportation study.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  GRAIN TRANSPORTATION STUDY.  The Department of
 1-5     Agriculture, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and the Texas
 1-6     Department of Transportation shall jointly conduct a comprehensive
 1-7     study of grain transportation in Texas.  The study must include
 1-8     data available from grain elevator operators, railroads, and truck
 1-9     operators and analyze the performance and costs associated with the
1-10     transportation of grain by rail or truck.  Not later than January
1-11     2, 2001, a report of the study must be filed with the governor, the
1-12     lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
1-13     representatives.
1-14           SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-15     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.