1-1     By:  Duncan, Shapleigh                                 S.B. No. 681
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1999; February 25, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the development of an intermodal transportation hub for
 1-9     economic development in certain municipalities.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 380.001, Local Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  Any city along the Texas-Mexico border with a population
1-14     of more than 500,000 may establish not-for-profit corporations and
1-15     cooperative associations for the purpose of creating and developing
1-16     an intermodal transportation hub to stimulate economic development.
1-17     Such intermodal hub may also function as an international
1-18     intermodal transportation center and may be colocated with or near
1-19     local, state, or federal facilities and facilities of Mexico in
1-20     order to fulfill its purpose.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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