By:  Raymond, Krusee (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)                 H.B. No. 3554
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2003; 
May 13, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
International Relations and Trade; May 23, 2003, reported 
adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following 
vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 2; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3554                                   By:  Zaffirini


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to motor vehicle inspection facilities near the border of 
this state and Mexico.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 201.613, Transportation Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 201.613.  ONE-STOP BORDER INSPECTION FACILITIES
[STATIONS]. (a)  The department shall erect and maintain border
[choose a location for an] inspection facilities [station] along a 
major highway at or near a border crossing from Mexico in the Pharr
[Brownsville], [in] Laredo, and [in] El Paso districts for the 
inspection of motor vehicles for compliance with federal and state 
commercial motor vehicle regulations.  To the extent possible, the 
department shall colocate agencies and utilize intelligent 
transportation systems in order to expedite the movement of people 
and vehicles [so that all federal, state, and municipal agencies 
that regulate the passage of persons or vehicles across the border 
at that border crossing may be located in one place].
	(b)  If a facility that serves a bridge system that had more 
than 900,000 commercial border crossings during the state fiscal 
year ending August 31, 2002, is to be located in a municipality or a 
municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction, the municipality may 
choose the location of the facility within the municipality or the 
municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.  The municipality 
shall choose a location not later than the 180th day after the date 
the department makes a request for a location.  [The department 
shall establish and maintain an inspection station at the locations 
chosen in Subsection (a) only if the federal agencies involved in 
the regulation of the passage of persons or vehicles at that border 
crossing agree to the design of the facility at each location and 
agree to use the facility at each location if built.
	[(c)  The department may enter into agreements with federal, 
state, and municipal agencies to accomplish the purpose of this 
section. An agreement may involve the lease of office space at the 
inspection station by the department to the agency.]
	SECTION 2.  The Texas Department of Transportation shall 
spend the money appropriated during the 76th Legislature for 
Section 201.613, Transportation Code, as added by Chapter 1527, 
Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, or money 
received from the federal government to establish the border 
inspection facilities under Section 201.613, Transportation Code, 
as amended by this Act.
	SECTION 3.   This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.



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