1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 749
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 2001; February 20, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
 1-4     April 9, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 9, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the authority of the Texas Natural Resource
 1-9     Conservation Commission to participate in environmental projects in
1-10     Mexico.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 5, Water Code, is amended
1-13     by adding Section 5.127 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 5.127.  ACTIONS IN MEXICO.  The commission may take and
1-15     finance any action in Mexico, in cooperation with governmental
1-16     authorities of Mexico, that in the opinion of the commission:
1-17                 (1)  is necessary or convenient to accomplish a duty of
1-18     the commission imposed by law; and
1-19                 (2)  will yield benefits to the environment in this
1-20     state.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-22     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-23     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-24     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-25     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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