1-1     By:  Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)               H.B. No. 2809
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; May 5, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 5, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to requiring a grain transportation study.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  GRAIN TRANSPORTATION STUDY.  The Department of
1-11     Agriculture, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and the Texas
1-12     Department of Transportation shall jointly conduct a comprehensive
1-13     study of grain transportation in Texas.  The study must include
1-14     data available from grain elevator operators, railroads, and truck
1-15     operators and analyze the performance and costs associated with the
1-16     transportation of grain by rail or truck.  Not later than January
1-17     2, 2001, a report of the study must be filed with the governor, the
1-18     lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
1-19     representatives.
1-20           SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-21     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.
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