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.