1-1     By:  Shapleigh, Zaffirini                              S.B. No. 501
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 1999; February 15, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Special Committee on Border
 1-4     Affairs; April 9, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 9, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a state agency's strategic plan to increase the
 1-9     agency's  presence in the border region.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 2056, Government Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Section 2056.0025 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 2056.0025.  BORDER REGION.  A state agency's strategic
1-14     plan must analyze how the agency can increase its presence in the
1-15     border region, as that phrase is defined by Section 481.001.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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