By: Lucio S.B. No. 816
(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2011; March 1, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on International
Relations and Trade; March 28, 2011, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 28, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appointment and recommendations of the Border Trade
Advisory Committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 201.114,
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) The coordinator shall serve on the Border Trade Advisory
Committee as presiding officer. The commission shall appoint the
other members of the committee, which to the extent practicable
must include:
(1) the presiding officers, or persons designated by
the presiding officers, of the policy boards of metropolitan
planning organizations wholly or partly in the department's Pharr,
Laredo, Odessa, or El Paso transportation district;
(2) the person serving, or a person designated by the
person serving, in the capacity of executive director of each
entity governing a port of entry in this state; [and]
(3) a representative each from at least two institutes
or centers operated by a university in this state that conduct
continuing research on transportation or trade issues; and
(4) the port director of the Port of Brownsville or the
port director's designee.
(c) The commission shall establish the Border Trade
Advisory Committee to define and develop a strategy and make
recommendations to the commission and governor for addressing the
highest priority border trade transportation challenges. In
determining action to be taken on the recommendations, the
commission shall consider the importance of trade with the United
Mexican States, potential sources of infrastructure funding at
border ports, including maritime ports, and the value of trade
activity in the department's districts adjacent to the border with
the United Mexican States.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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