By Dutton H.B. No. 1069 74R4955 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirements for highway construction in an urban 1-3 district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Department of Transportation shall 1-6 construct, for a project in an urban district, as defined by 1-7 Section 166, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 1-8 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), that involves the 1-9 construction or improvement of a limited access highway of four or 1-10 more lanes in the state highway system, one or more sound 1-11 attenuation walls at locations where the projected level of noise 1-12 from traffic on the completed project exceeds 68 decibels at a 1-13 distance of 25 feet from the highway. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-15 applies only to a highway construction project described in Section 1-16 1 of this Act that has not been completed on that date. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.