By: Telford H.B. No. 195
73R1080 GCH-D
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. Subsection (a), Article 6663h, Revised Statutes,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) For the purposes of performing the department's duties,
1-8 the commission shall divide the state into not more than 25 <18>
1-9 districts. A district may not have more than one district office.
1-10 The department may have as many offices for maintenance and
1-11 construction personnel in a district as the commission determines
1-12 necessary.
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.