By: Kubiak H.B. No. 385 73R1587 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to state maintenance and improvement of a farm-to-market 1-3 road. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Title 116, Revised Statutes, is 1-6 amended by adding Article 6673c-1 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 6673c-1. MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARM-TO-MARKET 1-8 ROAD. The Texas Department of Transportation is responsible for 1-9 the maintenance and improvement of Farm-to-Market Road 60. The 1-10 department shall widen to at least four lanes that portion of 1-11 Farm-to-Market Road 60 in Burleson County that lies between the 1-12 bridge over the Brazos River and the road's intersection with State 1-13 Highway 36. The department shall make the improvement in 1-14 Farm-to-Market Road 60 in the manner provided for highway 1-15 improvements under Section 4.301, County Road and Bridge Act 1-16 (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.