By:  Truan, Zaffirini, Lucio                           S.B. No. 627
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to directing the Parks and Wildlife Department to work
 1-2     with federal, state, and local agencies to mitigate environmental
 1-3     damage.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 13.303, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 13.303.  COOPERATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES.  (a)  The
 1-8     department shall cooperate with departments of the federal
 1-9     government and other departments of state and local government,
1-10     including as a part of the state plan, water districts, river
1-11     authorities, and special districts in outdoor recreation.  The
1-12     department shall issue rules and regulations to cooperate in the
1-13     enforcement and administration of federal acts and rules and
1-14     regulations.
1-15           (b)  The department shall implement programs and coordinate
1-16     with departments and agencies of the federal government, including
1-17     the United States Border Patrol and the Drug Enforcement
1-18     Administration, and other departments of state and local
1-19     government, if necessary, to mitigate environmental damage to any
1-20     land under the control and custody of the department along this
1-21     state's border with Mexico.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
 2-4                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
 2-5           Amend S.B. No. 627 in SECTION 1 of the bill, Subsection (b),
 2-6     Section 13.303, Parks and Wildlife Code (Senate engrossment, page
 2-7     1, line 19), by striking "mitigate" and substituting "minimize".
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