[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 119 (Friday, July 21, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S10506]
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                      BI-STATE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed 
to the immediate consideration of calendar 131, Senate Joint Resolution 
27.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 27) to grant the consent of 
     the Congress to certain additional powers conferred upon the 
     Bi-State Development Agency by the States of Missouri and 
     Illinois.

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the joint resolution 
be considered and passed, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to 
reconsider be laid upon the table, that any statements relating to the 
resolution appear at the appropriate place in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 27) was considered, ordered to be 
engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The joint resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:
                              S.J. Res. 27

       Whereas the Congress in consenting to the compact between 
     Missouri and Illinois creating the Bi-State Development 
     Agency and the Bi-State Metropolitan District provided that 
     no power shall be exercised by the Bi-State Agency under the 
     provisions of article III of such compact until such power 
     has been conferred upon the Bi-State Agency by the 
     legislatures of the States of the compact and approved by an 
     Act of Congress; and
       Whereas such States have now enacted certain legislation in 
     order to confer certain additional powers on such Bi-State 
     Development Agency: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That--
       (a) The consent of the Congress is hereby given to the 
     additional powers conferred on the Bi-State Development 
     Agency by Senate Bill 114, Laws of Missouri 1993 and Public 
     Act 88-611 (Senate Bill 1670), Laws of Illinois 1994.
       (b) The powers conferred by the Acts consented to in 
     subsection (a) shall take effect on January 1, 1995.
       Sec. 2. The provisions of the Act of August 31, 1950 (64 
     Stat. 568) shall apply to the additional powers approved 
     under this joint resolution to the same extent as if such 
     additional powers were conferred under the provisions of the 
     compact consented to in such Act.
       Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint 
     resolution is expressly reserved.
       Sec. 4. The right is hereby reserved to the Congress to 
     require the disclosure and furnishings of such information or 
     data by the Bi-State Development Agency as is deemed 
     appropriate by the Congress.
     

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