By: Holzheauser H.B. No. 631
73R3170 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the number and location of district offices of the
1-3 Texas Department of 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 25 <not more than 18> districts. A district may not
1-10 have more than one district office. The department shall locate a
1-11 district office in each of the following municipalities: Paris,
1-12 Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Amarillo, Lubbock, Odessa, San Angelo,
1-13 Abilene, Waco, Tyler, Lufkin, Houston, Yoakum, Austin, San Antonio,
1-14 Corpus Christi, Bryan, Dallas, Atlanta, Beaumont, Pharr, Laredo,
1-15 Brownwood, El Paso, and Childress. The department is exempt from
1-16 any law purporting to require the department to conform the
1-17 provision of its services to service regions other than the
1-18 districts established under this article.
1-19 (b) The department may have as many offices for maintenance
1-20 and construction personnel in a district as the commission
1-21 determines necessary.
1-22 (c) <(b)> In determining the <number and> boundaries of a
1-23 district, the commission shall consider all cost and benefit
1-24 factors including the highway activity and the number of employees
2-1 required to staff a proposed district.
2-2 (d) <(c)> The commission shall periodically review the
2-3 necessity for the <number of districts and for the> number of
2-4 maintenance, construction, and support operations in each district
2-5 and shall submit the findings of this review to the Legislative
2-6 Budget Board as part of any budget request the department shall be
2-7 required to file with that commission.
2-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.