By: Shapleigh, Lucio S.B. No. 913 Zaffirini, Duncan A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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. This Act takes effect only if a specific 2-1 appropriation for the implementation of this Act is provided in 2-2 H.B. No. 1 (General Appropriations Act), Acts of the 76th 2-3 Legislature, Regular Session, 1999. If no specific appropriation 2-4 is provided in H.B. No. 1, the General Appropriations Act, this Act 2-5 has no effect. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.