1-1  By:  Harris of Tarrant                                 S.B. No. 126
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 15, 1993; January 19, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; February 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; February 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Armbrister         x                               
    1-9        Leedom             x                               
   1-10        Carriker           x                               
   1-11        Henderson                                     x    
   1-12        Madla              x                               
   1-13        Moncrief           x                               
   1-14        Patterson          x                               
   1-15        Rosson             x                               
   1-16        Shapiro            x                               
   1-17        Wentworth          x                               
   1-18        Whitmire           x                               
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to the regulation of sight distances along county roads in
   1-22  certain counties.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Section 2.411, County Road and Bridge Act
   1-25  (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
   1-26  as follows:
   1-27        Sec. 2.411.  COUNTY SUBJECT TO SUBCHAPTER.  This subchapter
   1-28  applies only to a county with a population of 1 <1.18> million or
   1-29  more, according to the most recent federal census.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  The heading of Subchapter F, Chapter 2, County
   1-31  Road and Bridge Act (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-32  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-33   SUBCHAPTER F.  REGULATION OF SIGHT DISTANCE ALONG COUNTY ROADS IN
   1-34         COUNTY WITH POPULATION OF 1 MILLION <950,000> OR MORE
   1-35        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-43                                                         Austin,
   1-44  Texas
   1-45                                                         February 10,
   1-46  1993
   1-47  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-48  President of the Senate
   1-49  Sir:
   1-50  We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
   1-51  referred S.B. No. 126, have had the same under consideration, and I
   1-52  am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-53  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-54                                                         Armbrister,
   1-55  Chairman
   1-56                               * * * * *
   1-57                               WITNESSES
   1-58                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-59  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-60                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-61  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-62  Name:  Chris Gavras                              x
   1-63  Representing:  Tarrant County Comm. Court
   1-64  City:  Ft Worth
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