By Shapleigh S.B. No. 1857 76R9791 CMR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the study of barriers to the binational exchange of 1-3 health information. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. (a) The Texas Department of Health shall study 1-6 state laws inhibiting the: 1-7 (1) exchange of information on disease and 1-8 epidemiological reporting between Texas and the United Mexican 1-9 States; and 1-10 (2) cross-border exchange of equipment and personnel 1-11 to provide technical assistance and to enhance the capacity of 1-12 Texas and the United Mexican States to obtain and exchange the 1-13 information. 1-14 (b) The Texas Department of Health may appoint an advisory 1-15 committee under Chapter 2110, Government Code, to assist it to 1-16 perform its duties under this Act. 1-17 (c) Not later than January 15, 2001, the Texas Department of 1-18 Health shall issue a report describing the department's 1-19 recommendations to the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the 1-20 house of representatives. 1-21 (d) This section expires September 1, 2001. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.