By:  Shapleigh, et al.                                S.B. No. 1136
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a border commerce coordinator in the governor's office.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Chapter 772, Government Code, is amended by
 1-4     adding Section 772.010 to read as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 772.010.  BORDER COMMERCE COORDINATOR.  (a)  The
 1-6     governor shall designate a border commerce coordinator in the
 1-7     governor's office.  The coordinator shall:
 1-8                 (1)  study the flow of commerce at ports of entry
 1-9     between this state and Mexico, including the movement of commercial
1-10     vehicles across the border; and
1-11                 (2)  establish a plan to aid that commerce and improve
1-12     the movement of those vehicles.
1-13           (b)  The governor shall appoint the coordinator to serve at
1-14     the will of the governor.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.