By Pickett                                            H.B. No. 3465
         76R5443 WP-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring the Texas Department of Transportation to
 1-3     conduct a study of strategic deployment routes and highways used by
 1-4     the military.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  STUDY OF HIGHWAYS USED BY THE MILITARY.  The
 1-7     Texas Department of Transportation shall conduct a study of
 1-8     strategic deployment routes and other highways critical to the
 1-9     mission of the military in this state.  As part of its study, the
1-10     department shall meet with appropriate persons from military
1-11     installations in this state to identify those strategic deployment
1-12     routes and highways most often used by the military.  The
1-13     department shall specifically study the conditions of these routes
1-14     and highways used by the military and identify those highways that
1-15     need further construction, expansion, or maintenance.  The
1-16     department shall consider the costs necessary to accomplish the
1-17     highway improvements.  The department may base a portion of this
1-18     study on prior department studies that provide substantially
1-19     accurate data and address a relevant or designated issue for study
1-20     in this Act.
1-21           SECTION 2.  REPORT.  The department shall, not later than
1-22     January 31, 2000, submit a written report to the governor,
1-23     lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives
1-24     detailing the results of the study required by Section 1 of this
 2-1     Act, including any recommendations for legislative action.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
 2-3     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.