By Shapiro S.B. No. 649 74R5715 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the construction of certain road projects in certain 1-3 municipalities and counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Title 116, Revised Statutes, is 1-6 amended by adding Article 6674p-1 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 6674p-1. CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD PROJECTS IN CERTAIN 1-8 MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES. (a) This article applies only to a 1-9 road project that is: 1-10 (1) located in a municipality with a population of 1-11 200,000 or more or a county with a population of 200,000 or more; 1-12 (2) funded by the department with state or federal 1-13 aid; and 1-14 (3) not part of the state highway system. 1-15 (b) On the request of the governing body of a municipality 1-16 or a county, as appropriate, the department shall allow the 1-17 municipality or the county direct control over the construction of 1-18 a road project to which this article applies, including the 1-19 authority to contract for the construction of the project and to 1-20 specify local design standards for the project. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.