By Denny                                         H.B. No. 254

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to allowing the placement of directional signs for small

 1-3     businesses along certain highways.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 394.003, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  This chapter does not apply to a directional sign for a

 1-8     small business, as defined by Section 2006.011, Government Code, if

 1-9     the sign:

1-10                 (1)  is on private property; and

1-11                 (2)  has a surface area not larger than 50 square feet.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.