By Thompson H.B. No. 691 75R3420 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the erection of sound barrier walls along certain parts 1-3 of Interstate Highway 610 in Houston. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. As soon as practical, the Texas Department of 1-6 Transportation shall erect sound barrier walls along the west side 1-7 of Interstate 610 in Houston, from a point approximately 1/2 mile 1-8 south of the intersection of Interstate Highway 610 and Interstate 1-9 Highway 10 on the east side of Houston extending to a point located 1-10 approximately five-eighths of a mile to the south. The sound 1-11 barrier shall be designed to reduce highway noise for residences 1-12 located in the vicinity of Interstate 610 on the following streets 1-13 in Houston: Laurentide, Candy, Fannette, Berndale, Tilgham, 1-14 Cowart, Wiggins, Pattibob, Josie, Flossie Mae, Othello, Quaker, and 1-15 Guinivere. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-23 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 1-24 Amend H.B. 691 as follows: 2-1 Add the following new SECTION 2 to the bill and renumber the 2-2 existing SECTION 2 as SECTION 3: 2-3 "It is the intent of the legislature that this directive not 2-4 be construed as, nor constitute the establishment of, a program for 2-5 type 2 projects for noise abatement on existing federal-aid 2-6 highways pursuant to 23 CFR Part 772." 2-7 Siebert