By:  Ratliff, et al.                                    S.B. No. 33
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to district offices of the Texas Department of
    1-2  Transportation.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Article 6663h, Revised Statutes,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  For the purposes of performing the department's duties,
    1-7  the commission shall divide the state into not more than 25 <18>
    1-8  districts.  A district may not have more than one district office.
    1-9  The department may have as many offices for maintenance and
   1-10  construction personnel in a district as the commission determines
   1-11  necessary.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.