By Chisum                                               H.B. No. 17

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 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 site of traffic fatalities.  The signs

1-10     shall be designed by the Department of Public Safety and may

1-11     contain the following information:

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

1-13     location;

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

1-15     seatbelts;

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

1-17                 (4)  any other information the Department of Public

1-18     Safety determines is necessary to promote safe driving.

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

1-20     traffic safety signs on public buildings and in literature

1-21     distributed to the public by the department.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.