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. 1-22 * * * * *