By Shapleigh                                           S.B. No. 501
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a state agency's strategic plan to increase the
 1-3     agency's  presence in the border region.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 2056, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Section 2056.0025 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 2056.0025.  BORDER REGION.  A state agency's strategic
 1-8     plan  must analyze how the agency  can increase its presence in the
 1-9     border region, as that phrase is defined by Section 481.001.
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.