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.