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.
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