76R12519 DWS-F                           
         By Najera                                             H.B. No. 3426
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3426:
         By Hunter                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3426
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a study of state government functions at border
 1-3     crossings.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  The comptroller of public accounts shall
 1-6     conduct a study of movement of commercial vehicles across the
 1-7     border between this state and Mexico to determine how separation of
 1-8     state government functions involving regulation of commerce from
 1-9     functions involving detection and prevention of crime would reduce
1-10     congestion and enhance the effective movement of those vehicles.
1-11     The comptroller shall develop recommendations for the manner of
1-12     accomplishing this separation and a model for the continuing
1-13     independent operation of those functions.
1-14           (b)  In cooperation with the office of the governor, the
1-15     comptroller may consult, exchange information not confidential
1-16     under the law of this state, and otherwise work jointly with
1-17     relevant agencies of federal, state, or local government to the
1-18     extent the comptroller considers appropriate for purposes of this
1-19     Act.
1-20           (c)  Before January 1, 2001, the comptroller shall submit the
1-21     results of the study and the comptroller's recommendations and
1-22     model to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the
1-23     house of representatives.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.