1-1  By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 112
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 14, 1993; January 19, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 15, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
    1-6  April 15, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Armbrister         x                               
   1-10        Leedom             x                               
   1-11        Carriker           x                               
   1-12        Henderson                                     x    
   1-13        Madla              x                               
   1-14        Moncrief                                      x    
   1-15        Patterson          x                               
   1-16        Rosson             x                               
   1-17        Shapiro            x                               
   1-18        Wentworth          x                               
   1-19        Whitmire                                      x    
   1-20  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 112                 By:  Carriker
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to the regulation of outdoor signs in certain areas of
   1-24  certain counties; providing a penalty.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Article 2, Chapter 221, Acts of the 69th
   1-27  Legislature, Regular Session, 1985 (Article 6674v-3, Vernon's Texas
   1-28  Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 18 to read as
   1-29  follows:
   1-30        Sec. 18.  REGULATION ON STATE HIGHWAY 288.  (a)  The
   1-31  legislature finds that:
   1-32              (1)  State Highway 288 is frequented for scenic
   1-33  purposes by residents from every part of the state; and
   1-34              (2)  protecting the scenic characteristics of the
   1-35  highway is of concern to the entire state.
   1-36        (b)  The power granted under this section is to encourage the
   1-37  scenic use of State Highway 288.
   1-38        (c)  The Texas Department of Transportation may license,
   1-39  control, or otherwise regulate the erection of a sign that is
   1-40  located within 1,000 feet of the center line of that part of State
   1-41  Highway 288 that is located in the unincorporated area of the
   1-42  county.
   1-43        (d)  This section applies to signs erected on or after the
   1-44  effective date of this Act.
   1-45        (e)  A violation of a regulation adopted under this section
   1-46  is a Class C misdemeanor.
   1-47        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-48        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-49  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-50  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-51  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-52  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-54                                                         Austin,
   1-55  Texas
   1-56                                                         April 15, 1993
   1-57  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-58  President of the Senate
   1-59  Sir:
   1-60  We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
   1-61  referred S.B. No. 112, have had the same under consideration, and I
   1-62  am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-63  recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee
   1-64  Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
   1-65                                                         Armbrister,
   1-66  Chairman
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   1-68                               WITNESSES
    2-1                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
    2-2  ___________________________________________________________________
    2-3  Name:  Dick Ingram                                       x
    2-4  Representing:  Outdoor Advertising Assoc.
    2-5      Tx.
    2-6  City:  Austin
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    2-8  Name:  John Bowman                               x
    2-9  Representing:  TriTech Regional Council
   2-10  City:  Houston
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   2-12  Name:  Inez Eppright                                           x
   2-13  Representing:  Texas Dept. of
   2-14      Transportation
   2-15  City:  Austin
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   2-17  Name:  Curtis Toews                                            x
   2-18  Representing:  Texas Dept. of
   2-19      Transportation
   2-20  City:  Austin
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