75R9897 DRH-D                           

         By McClendon                                           H.B. No. 970

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 970:

         By Siebert                                         C.S.H.B. No. 970

                                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.