1-1     By:  Shapleigh, et al.                                S.B. No. 1136
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Special Committee on Border Affairs;
 1-4     April 9, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 9, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a border commerce coordinator in the governor's office.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Chapter 772, Government Code, is amended by
1-11     adding Section 772.010 to read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 772.010.  BORDER COMMERCE COORDINATOR.  (a)  The
1-13     governor shall designate a border commerce coordinator in the
1-14     governor's office.  The coordinator shall:
1-15                 (1)  study the flow of commerce at ports of entry
1-16     between this state and Mexico, including the movement of commercial
1-17     vehicles across the border; and
1-18                 (2)  establish a plan to aid that commerce and improve
1-19     the movement of those vehicles.
1-20           (b)  The governor shall appoint the coordinator to serve at
1-21     the will of the governor.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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