By Pitts                                               H.B. No. 549
       74R363 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to specific information logo signs along interstate
    1-3  highways in counties with a population of 200,000 or less.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4.07(b), Chapter 741, Acts of the 67th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 4477-9a, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (b)  The commission shall contract with a person, firm,
    1-9  group, or association in the State of Texas to erect and maintain
   1-10  signs that give specific information of interest to the travelling
   1-11  public, including specific brand names, at appropriate locations
   1-12  along interstate highways in each county with a population of
   1-13  200,000 or less <less than 20,000>.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.