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.