1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to posting signs along roadsides to promote traffic

 1-3     safety.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 201.905 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 201.905.  TRAFFIC SAFETY SIGNS.  (a)  The department may

 1-8     implement a traffic safety program that includes posting signs

 1-9     along the roadside at the 500 sites with the highest number of

1-10     traffic fatalities.  The signs shall be designed by the department

1-11     and may contain the following information:

1-12                 (1)  the number of fatalities that occurred at that

1-13     location in the last 10 years;

1-14                 (2)  the importance of driving safely and wearing seat

1-15     belts;

1-16                 (3)  the importance of not drinking and driving; and

1-17                 (4)  any other information the department determines is

1-18     necessary to promote safe driving.

1-19           (b)  A program under this section may also include literature

1-20     distributed to the public by the department.

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,

 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 17 was passed by the House on May 7,

         1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 17 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor