By: Naishtat H.B. No. 1988
73R5614 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public hearings about, and the authority of a
1-3 commissioners court to delegate authority to make, traffic safety
1-4 decisions in certain counties.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 2.301(a)(2), County Road and Bridge Act
1-7 (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-8 as follows:
1-9 (2) A commissioners court in a county with a
1-10 population of more than 500,000, according to the most recent
1-11 federal census, may delegate any function of the commissioners
1-12 court under this section to the county engineer or another employee
1-13 capable of performing the function. The action of the person in
1-14 carrying out the delegated function has the same effect as if it
1-15 were the action of the commissioners court. <The commissioners
1-16 court shall hold a public hearing before issuing any traffic
1-17 regulation under this Act. The court shall give advance notice of
1-18 the proposed regulation by publishing notice of the hearing in a
1-19 newspaper of general circulation in the county. The notice must be
1-20 published not later than the seventh day or earlier than the 30th
1-21 day before the day of the hearing.>
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.