1-1 By: Shapleigh, Lucio, Zaffirini, Duncan S.B. No. 913 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1999; March 8, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Special Committee on Border Affairs; 1-4 April 19, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 19, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 913 By: Truan 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the establishment and maintenance of one-stop border 1-11 inspection stations by the Texas Department of Transportation in 1-12 Brownsville, Laredo, and El Paso. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 201, Transportation Code, 1-15 is amended by adding Section 201.613 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 201.613. ONE-STOP BORDER INSPECTION STATIONS. (a) The 1-17 department shall choose a location for an inspection station along 1-18 a major highway at or near a border crossing from Mexico in 1-19 Brownsville, in Laredo, and in El Paso so that all federal, state, 1-20 and municipal agencies that regulate the passage of persons or 1-21 vehicles across the border at that border crossing may be located 1-22 in one place. 1-23 (b) The department shall establish and maintain an 1-24 inspection station at the locations chosen in Subsection (a) only 1-25 if the federal agencies involved in the regulation of the passage 1-26 of persons or vehicles at that border crossing agree to the design 1-27 of the facility at each location and agree to use the facility at 1-28 each location if built. 1-29 (c) The department may enter into agreements with federal, 1-30 state, and municipal agencies to accomplish the purpose of this 1-31 section. An agreement may involve the lease of office space at the 1-32 inspection station by the department to the agency. 1-33 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-39 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-40 * * * * *