AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the establishment and maintenance of one-stop border
 1-2     inspection stations by the Texas Department of Transportation in
 1-3     Brownsville, Laredo, and El Paso.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 201.613 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 201.613.  ONE-STOP BORDER INSPECTION STATIONS.  (a)  The
 1-8     department shall choose a location for an inspection station along
 1-9     a major highway at or near a border crossing from Mexico in
1-10     Brownsville, in Laredo, and in El Paso so that all federal, state,
1-11     and municipal agencies that regulate the passage of persons or
1-12     vehicles across the border at that border crossing may be located
1-13     in one place.
1-14           (b)  The department shall establish and maintain an
1-15     inspection station at the locations chosen in Subsection (a) only
1-16     if the federal agencies involved in the regulation of the passage
1-17     of persons or vehicles at that border crossing agree to the design
1-18     of the facility at each location and agree to use the facility at
1-19     each location if built.
1-20           (c)  The department may enter into agreements with federal,
1-21     state, and municipal agencies to accomplish the purpose of this
1-22     section.  An agreement may involve the lease of office space at the
1-23     inspection station by the department to the agency.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The Texas Department of Transportation shall
 2-1     spend at least $8 million but not more than $9 million of the funds
 2-2     that are appropriated to the department by House Bill No. 1, Acts
 2-3     of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999 (the General
 2-4     Appropriations Act), for the biennium beginning September 1, 1999,
 2-5     or that are received from the federal government, for the
 2-6     preliminary costs associated with establishing the facilities
 2-7     required by Section 201.613, Transportation Code, as added by this
 2-8     Act, including the design, site selection, purchase, and
 2-9     construction-related costs of the facilities.  The department shall
2-10     apportion the funds in a manner to achieve approximately equal
2-11     progress in the establishment of the facilities at each location.
2-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18     passage, and it is so enacted.
                                                                S.B. No. 913
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 913 passed the Senate on
         April 27, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0;
         May 25, 1999, Senate refused to concur in House amendment and
         requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 26, 1999, House
         granted request of the Senate; May 30, 1999, Senate adopted
         Conference Committee Report by the following vote:  Yeas 30,
         Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 913 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 23, 1999, by a non-record vote; May 26, 1999,
         House granted request of the Senate for appointment of Conference
         Committee; May 30, 1999, House adopted Conference Committee Report
         by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                      Date
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                    Governor