By: Ratliff S.B. No. 907
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to notification to legislators of the completion of
1-2 highway projects.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 6673j, Revised Statutes, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Art. 6673j. NOTICE TO LEGISLATORS OF COMPLETED PROJECTS.
1-7 Not later than the 10th day before the date a major road project is
1-8 scheduled for completion, the department shall inform each member
1-9 of the legislature who represents <representing> the county in
1-10 which the road project is located and who desires notice of the
1-11 location of and the completion date of the road project. The
1-12 department shall contact each legislator to determine whether the
1-13 legislator desires to receive notices under this article.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.