S.B. No. 33
                                        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.  Article 6663h, Revised Statutes, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Art. 6663h.  DEPARTMENT DISTRICTS.  (a)  For the purposes of
    1-7  performing the department's duties, the commission shall divide the
    1-8  state into not more than 25 <18> districts.  A district may not
    1-9  have more than one district office.  The department may have as
   1-10  many offices for maintenance and construction personnel in a
   1-11  district as the commission determines necessary.  The department is
   1-12  exempt from any law purporting to require the department to conform
   1-13  the provision of its services to service regions other than the
   1-14  districts established under this article.
   1-15        (b)  In determining the <number and> boundaries of a
   1-16  district, the commission shall consider all cost and benefit
   1-17  factors including the highway activity and the number of employees
   1-18  required to staff a proposed district.
   1-19        (c)  The commission shall periodically review the necessity
   1-20  for the <number of districts and for the> number of maintenance,
   1-21  construction, and support operations in each district and shall
   1-22  submit the findings of this review to the Legislative Budget Board
   1-23  as part of any budget request the department shall be required to
   1-24  file with that commission.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.