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 Texas Department of

1-11     Transportation for approval.  If the Texas Department of

1-12     Transportation determines that the route complies with all

1-13     applicable federal and state regulations regarding the

1-14     transportation of hazardous materials, the transportation

1-15     department shall approve the route and notify the municipality of

1-16     the approved route.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 970 was passed by the House on May 2,

         1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate

         amendments to H.B. No. 970 on May 28, 1997, by the following vote:

         Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 970 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, on May 26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays

         0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor