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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relati |
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ng to a study on automobile theft |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. (a) The Department of Public Safety shall |
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conduct a study on trans-national automobile theft while consulting |
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with the Federal Government, the Texas Auto Burglary and Theft |
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Prevention Authority and Auto Burglary and Theft Prevention |
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Authority funded tasks forces. |
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(b) The study shall address: |
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(1) current automobile theft rates in Texas including |
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data on stolen vehicles brought into Mexico; |
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(2) practices currently in place to prevent stolen |
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vehicles from exiting Texas into Mexico |
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(3) suggestions on how to further control automobile |
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theft between Texas and Mexico |
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(4) determine the feasibility of a no-cross database, |
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whereby vehicle owners can sign and acknowledge that they do not |
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want their vehicles to exit Texas into Mexico |
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(c) Not later than November, 2016, the Department of Public |
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Safety shall issue a report on the study required under this section |
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to the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of |
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representatives, and the appropriate standing committees of the |
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house of representatives and the senate. |
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(d) This section expires September 1, 2017. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |