By: Maxey H.B. No. 2807 73R5194 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to cooperation between the Texas Department of 1-3 Transportation and a metropolitan planning organization. 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 consult with the metropolitan planning organization, as described 1-7 by Section 134(b), Title 23, United States Code, and its subsequent 1-8 amendments, in which a state-funded highway project is proposed, on 1-9 the merits and background of the proposed project before the 1-10 department begins significant work on the project. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.