By Driver H.B. No. 297 75R1906 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain signs controlling use of traffic lanes. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 544, Transportation Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Section 544.011 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 544.011. LANE USE SIGNS. If, on a highway having more 1-7 than one lane with vehicles traveling in the same direction, the 1-8 department or a local authority places a sign that directs slower 1-9 traffic to travel in a lane other than the farthest left lane, the 1-10 sign must read "left lane for passing only." 1-11 SECTION 2. (a) Before January 1, 1998, the Department of 1-12 Public Safety shall amend its sign manual adopted under Section 1-13 544.001, Transportation Code, to comply with Section 544.011, 1-14 Transportation Code, as adopted by this Act. 1-15 (b) The department or a local authority that places a sign 1-16 to which Section 544.011, Transportation Code, applies is not 1-17 required to comply with that section before September 1, 1998. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.