By Saunders H.B. No. 2359 74R5257 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the financing of the construction, improvement, or 1-3 maintenance of farm-to-market roads. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4.002(a), County Road and Bridge Act 1-6 (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read 1-7 as follows: 1-8 (a) The farm-to-market road fund is established for 1-9 financing the construction, improvement, and maintenance of 1-10 farm-to-market roads by the State Department of Highways and Public 1-11 Transportation. The department may use money in the fund only for 1-12 the construction, improvement, or maintenance of a farm-to-market 1-13 road, or a segment of a farm-to-market road, that is located 1-14 outside the limits of a municipality. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. The 1-16 change in law made by this Act applies only to a project for the 1-17 construction, improvement, or maintenance of a farm-to-market road 1-18 that is initiated by the Texas Department of Transportation on or 1-19 after that date. A project for the construction, improvement, or 1-20 maintenance of a farm-to-market road that was initiated by the 1-21 Texas Department of Transportation before the effective date of 1-22 this Act is covered by the law in effect when the project was 1-23 initiated, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-24 purpose. For purposes of this section, a project for the 2-1 construction, improvement, or maintenance of a farm-to-market road 2-2 was initiated by the Texas Department of Transportation before the 2-3 effective date of this Act if any phase of the project was 2-4 initiated by the department before that date. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.