73R6061 GCH-D
By Telford, et al. H.B. No. 195
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 195:
By Bosse C.S.H.B. No. 195
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to district offices of the Texas Department of
1-3 Transportation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 6663h, Revised Statutes, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Art. 6663h. DEPARTMENT DISTRICTS. (a) For the purposes of
1-8 performing the department's duties, the commission shall divide the
1-9 state into not more than 25 <18> districts. A district may not
1-10 have more than one district office. The department may have as
1-11 many offices for maintenance and construction personnel in a
1-12 district as the commission determines necessary. The department is
1-13 exempt from any law purporting to require the department to conform
1-14 the provision of its services to service regions other than the
1-15 districts established under this article.
1-16 (b) In determining the <number and> boundaries of a
1-17 district, the commission shall consider all cost and benefit
1-18 factors including the highway activity and the number of employees
1-19 required to staff a proposed district.
1-20 (c) The commission shall periodically review the necessity
1-21 for the <number of districts and for the> number of maintenance,
1-22 construction, and support operations in each district and shall
1-23 submit the findings of this review to the Legislative Budget Board
1-24 as part of any budget request the department shall be required to
2-1 file with that commission.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.