| 1 | 1 | | By: Lucio S.B. No. 816 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Lucio III) |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the appointment and recommendations of the Border Trade |
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| 8 | 8 | | Advisory Committee. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 201.114, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (b) The coordinator shall serve on the Border Trade Advisory |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee as presiding officer. The commission shall appoint the |
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| 14 | 14 | | other members of the committee, which to the extent practicable |
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| 15 | 15 | | must include: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (1) the presiding officers, or persons designated by |
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| 17 | 17 | | the presiding officers, of the policy boards of metropolitan |
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| 18 | 18 | | planning organizations wholly or partly in the department's Pharr, |
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| 19 | 19 | | Laredo, Odessa, or El Paso transportation district; |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2) the person serving, or a person designated by the |
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| 21 | 21 | | person serving, in the capacity of executive director of each |
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| 22 | 22 | | entity governing a port of entry in this state; [and] |
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| 23 | 23 | | (3) a representative each from at least two institutes |
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| 24 | 24 | | or centers operated by a university in this state that conduct |
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| 25 | 25 | | continuing research on transportation or trade issues; and |
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| 26 | 26 | | (4) the port director of the Port of Brownsville or the |
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| 27 | 27 | | port director's designee. |
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| 28 | 28 | | (c) The commission shall establish the Border Trade |
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| 29 | 29 | | Advisory Committee to define and develop a strategy and make |
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| 30 | 30 | | recommendations to the commission and governor for addressing the |
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| 31 | 31 | | highest priority border trade transportation challenges. In |
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| 32 | 32 | | determining action to be taken on the recommendations, the |
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| 33 | 33 | | commission shall consider the importance of trade with the United |
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| 34 | 34 | | Mexican States, potential sources of infrastructure funding at |
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| 35 | 35 | | border ports, including maritime ports, and the value of trade |
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| 36 | 36 | | activity in the department's districts adjacent to the border with |
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| 37 | 37 | | the United Mexican States. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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