By: Cain H.B. No. 2768 73R6644 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the powers and duties 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. The Texas Department of Transportation shall: 1-6 (1) expand the state's transportation intermodal 1-7 planning process for long-term state economic development; 1-8 (2) conduct a transportation study of multimodal 1-9 ground corridors; 1-10 (3) enact a pavement management system policy; 1-11 (4) expedite urban highway construction to reduce 1-12 congestion, improve safety, and lower users' costs; and 1-13 (5) explore innovative approaches to improving school 1-14 bus transportation systems. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.