By Shapleigh, et al.                                  S.B. No. 1136
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a border commerce coordinator in the governor's office.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 772, Government Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Section 772.010 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 772.010.  BORDER COMMERCE COORDINATOR.  (a)  The
 1-7     governor shall designate a border commerce coordinator in the
 1-8     governor's office.  The coordinator shall:
 1-9                 (1)  study the flow of commerce at ports of entry
1-10     between this state and Mexico, including the movement of commercial
1-11     vehicles across the border; and
1-12                 (2)  establish a plan to aid that commerce and improve
1-13     the movement of those vehicles.
1-14           (b)  The governor shall appoint the coordinator to serve at
1-15     the will of the governor.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.