By: Dutton H.B. No. 1410 73R5729 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirements for highway construction in an urban 1-3 district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Department of Transportation shall 1-6 construct, for a project in an urban district, as defined by 1-7 Section 166, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 1-8 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), including subsequent 1-9 amendments to that definition, that involves the construction or 1-10 improvement of a limited access highway of four or more lanes in 1-11 the state highway system, one or more sound attenuation walls at 1-12 locations where the projected level of noise from traffic on the 1-13 completed project exceeds 68 decibels at a distance of 25 feet from 1-14 the highway. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 1-16 applies only to a highway construction project described in Section 1-17 1 of this Act that has not been completed on that date. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.