1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 670
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1993; March 9, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 24, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0;
1-6 March 24, 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. 670 By: Armbrister
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the authority of a commissioners court to delegate
1-24 authority to make traffic safety decisions in certain counties.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 2.301, County Road and
1-27 Bridge Act (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-28 amended by amending Subdivision (2) and adding Subdivision (3) to
1-29 read as follows:
1-30 (2) Except as provided by Subdivision (3) of this
1-31 subsection, the <The> commissioners court shall hold a public
1-32 hearing before issuing any traffic regulation under this Act. The
1-33 court shall give advance notice of the proposed regulation by
1-34 publishing notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general
1-35 circulation in the county. The notice must be published not later
1-36 than the seventh day or earlier than the 30th day before the day of
1-37 the hearing.
1-38 (3) A commissioners court in a county with a
1-39 population of more than 500,000, according to the most recent
1-40 federal census, may delegate any function of the commissioners
1-41 court under this section to the county engineer or another employee
1-42 capable of performing the function. The action of the person in
1-43 carrying out the delegated function has the same effect as if it
1-44 were the action of the commissioners court. Before issuing a
1-45 traffic regulation under this Act the commissioners court of such a
1-46 county, as an alternative to publishing any notice required by law
1-47 other than this Act, may conspicuously post notice of the proposed
1-48 regulation by sign at any location affected by the proposed
1-49 regulation. The commissioners court is not required to hold a
1-50 public hearing before the regulation is issued unless a resident of
1-51 the county, in writing, requests the hearing before the eighth day
1-52 after the later of the date of the publication of the notice, if
1-53 any, or the date of the posting of the sign. If a hearing is
1-54 requested, the commissioners court may not delegate the duty to
1-55 hold the hearing.
1-56 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-57 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-58 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-59 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-60 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-61 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-62 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-63 * * * * *
1-64 Austin,
1-65 Texas
1-66 March 24, 1993
1-67 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-68 President of the Senate
2-1 Sir:
2-2 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
2-3 referred S.B. No. 670, have had the same under consideration, and I
2-4 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
2-5 recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee
2-6 Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
2-7 Armbrister,
2-8 Chairman
2-9 * * * * *
2-10 WITNESSES
2-11 FOR AGAINST ON
2-12 ___________________________________________________________________
2-13 Name: Valarie Bristol x
2-14 Representing: Travis County
2-15 City: Austin
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