By: Duncan, Shapleigh S.B. No. 681 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the development of an intermodal transportation hub for 1-2 economic development in certain municipalities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 380.001, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) Any city along the Texas-Mexico border with a population 1-7 of more than 500,000 may establish not-for-profit corporations and 1-8 cooperative associations for the purpose of creating and developing 1-9 an intermodal transportation hub to stimulate economic development. 1-10 Such intermodal hub may also function as an international 1-11 intermodal transportation center and may be colocated with or near 1-12 local, state, or federal facilities and facilities of Mexico in 1-13 order to fulfill its purpose. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.