1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1379
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
 1-4     Military Installations; April 13, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; April 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a study on the use of Fort Bliss for Texas National
 1-9     Guard training.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  (a)  The adjutant general shall conduct a study
1-12     of the Texas National Guard's use of Fort Bliss Military
1-13     Reservation in El Paso for training activities.  The study shall
1-14     include a review and analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness
1-15     of training operations and a statement of the number, condition,
1-16     and organization of the members of the Texas National Guard that
1-17     participate in training activities at Fort Bliss.
1-18           (b)  The adjutant general shall report the findings of the
1-19     study conducted under this Act to the governor, lieutenant
1-20     governor, and speaker of the house of representatives not later
1-21     than January 1, 2001.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-23     expires September 1, 2001.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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