By McClendon H.B. No. 3334 76R7555 CMR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an interim committee on binational exchange of health 1-3 information. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. (a) The interim committee on binational exchange 1-6 of health information is established to study state laws inhibiting 1-7 the exchange of information on disease and epidemiological 1-8 reporting between Texas and the United Mexican States. 1-9 (b) The interim committee is composed of 10 members 1-10 appointed as follows: 1-11 (1) five members of the senate, appointed by the 1-12 lieutenant governor; and 1-13 (2) five members of the house of representatives, 1-14 appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives. 1-15 (c) The lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of 1-16 representatives each shall alternate the designation of a presiding 1-17 officer and vice presiding officer from among the members appointed 1-18 to the committee, with each officer serving in that capacity for 1-19 not more than one year. The lieutenant governor shall designate the 1-20 first presiding officer and the speaker shall designate the first 1-21 vice presiding officer. 1-22 (d) The committee shall meet at the call of the presiding 1-23 officer. 1-24 (e) The committee shall study state laws inhibiting the: 2-1 (1) exchange of information on disease and 2-2 epidemiological reporting between Texas and the United Mexican 2-3 States; and 2-4 (2) cross-border exchange of equipment and personnel 2-5 to provide technical assistance and to enhance the capacity of 2-6 Texas and the United Mexican States to obtain and exchange the 2-7 information. 2-8 (f) Not later than January 15, 2001, the committee shall 2-9 issue a report describing the committee's recommendations to the 2-10 lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of 2-11 representatives. 2-12 (g) The committee shall adopt rules to administer this 2-13 section. 2-14 (h) The committee is abolished and this section expires 2-15 September 1, 2001. 2-16 SECTION 2. Before November 1, 1999, the lieutenant governor 2-17 and the speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint 2-18 members to the interim committee on binational exchange of 2-19 information as provided by Section 1 of this Act. 2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.