1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1375
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 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. 1375               By:  Shapleigh
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to a study of state government functions at border
1-11     crossings.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  (a)  The comptroller of public accounts shall
1-14     conduct a study of movement of commercial vehicles across the
1-15     border between this state and Mexico to determine how separation of
1-16     state government functions involving regulation of commerce from
1-17     functions involving detection and prevention of crime would reduce
1-18     congestion and enhance the effective movement of those vehicles.
1-19     The comptroller shall develop recommendations for the manner of
1-20     accomplishing this separation and a model for the continuing
1-21     independent operation of those functions.
1-22           (b)  In cooperation with the office of the governor, the
1-23     comptroller of public accounts may consult, exchange information
1-24     not confidential under the law of this state, and otherwise work
1-25     jointly with relevant agencies of federal, state, or local
1-26     government to the extent the comptroller considers appropriate for
1-27     purposes of this Act.
1-28           (c)  Before January 1, 2001, the comptroller of public
1-29     accounts shall submit the results of the study and the
1-30     comptroller's recommendations and model to the governor, lieutenant
1-31     governor, and speaker of the house of representatives.
1-32           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38     passage, and it is so enacted.
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