By:  Fraser                                            S.B. No. 606
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to requiring the Texas Department of Transportation to
 1-2     conduct a study of strategic deployment routes and highways used by
 1-3     the military.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  STUDY OF HIGHWAYS USED BY THE MILITARY.  The
 1-6     Texas Department of Transportation shall conduct a study of
 1-7     strategic deployment routes and other highways critical to the
 1-8     mission of the military in this state.  As part of its study, the
 1-9     department shall meet with appropriate persons from military
1-10     installations in this state to identify those strategic deployment
1-11     routes and highways most often used by the military.  The
1-12     department shall specifically study the conditions of these routes
1-13     and highways used by the military and identify those highways that
1-14     need further construction, expansion, or maintenance.  The
1-15     department shall consider the costs necessary to accomplish the
1-16     highway improvements.  The department may base a portion of this
1-17     study on prior department studies and existing data that provide
1-18     substantially accurate data and address a relevant or designated
1-19     issue for study in this Act.  The department, to reduce the overall
1-20     cost of this study, may enlist the services of available university
1-21     support to aid the department in its research if it so chooses.
1-22           SECTION 2.  REPORT.  The Texas Department of Transportation
1-23     shall, not later than January 31, 2000, submit a written report to
1-24     the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of
 2-1     representatives detailing the results of the study required by
 2-2     Section 1 of this Act, including any recommendations for
 2-3     legislative action.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
 2-5     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.