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.