By McClendon H.B. No. 970 75R9897 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the transportation of hazardous materials in certain 1-3 municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 7, Article 6675d, Revised Statutes, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-7 (f) A municipality with a population of more than 750,000 1-8 shall develop a route for commercial motor vehicles carrying 1-9 hazardous materials on a road or highway in the municipality. The 1-10 municipality shall submit the route to the department for approval. 1-11 If the department determines that the route complies with all 1-12 applicable federal and state regulations regarding the 1-13 transportation of hazardous materials, the department shall approve 1-14 the route and notify the municipality and the Texas Department of 1-15 Transportation of the approved route. 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.