1-1     By:  Fraser                                            S.B. No. 606
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 18, 1999; February 22, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
 1-4     Military Installations; March 4, 1999, reported favorably, as
 1-5     amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 4, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Fraser
 1-8     Amend Senate Bill No. 606 as follows:
 1-9           (1)  On page 1, line 33, between the word "studies" and the
1-10     word "that" insert "and existing data."
1-11           (2)  On page 1, line 35, following the word "Act." add new
1-12     sentence "The department, to reduce the overall cost of this study,
1-13     may enlist the services of available university support to aid the
1-14     department in its research if it so chooses."
1-15                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16                                   AN ACT
1-17     relating to requiring the Texas Department of Transportation to
1-18     conduct a study of strategic deployment routes and highways used by
1-19     the military.
1-20           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21           SECTION 1.  STUDY OF HIGHWAYS USED BY THE MILITARY.  The
1-22     Texas Department of Transportation shall conduct a study of
1-23     strategic deployment routes and other highways critical to the
1-24     mission of the military in this state.  As part of its study, the
1-25     department shall meet with appropriate persons from military
1-26     installations in this state to identify those strategic deployment
1-27     routes and highways most often used by the military.  The
1-28     department shall specifically study the conditions of these routes
1-29     and highways used by the military and identify those highways that
1-30     need further construction, expansion, or maintenance.  The
1-31     department shall consider the costs necessary to accomplish the
1-32     highway improvements.  The department may base a portion of this
1-33     study on prior department studies that provide substantially
1-34     accurate data and address a relevant or designated issue for study
1-35     in this Act.
1-36           SECTION 2.  REPORT.  The Texas Department of Transportation
1-37     shall, not later than January 31, 2000, submit a written report to
1-38     the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of
1-39     representatives detailing the results of the study required by
1-40     Section 1 of this Act, including any recommendations for
1-41     legislative action.
1-42           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-43     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48     passage, and it is so enacted.
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