1-1 By: McClendon (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 970 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997; 1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 1997, reported adversely, with 1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, 1-6 Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 970 By: Madla 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the transportation of hazardous materials in certain 1-11 municipalities. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 7, Article 6675d, Revised Statutes, is 1-14 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-15 (f) A municipality with a population of more than 750,000 1-16 shall develop a route for commercial motor vehicles carrying 1-17 hazardous materials on a road or highway in the municipality. The 1-18 municipality shall submit the route to the Texas Department of 1-19 Transportation for approval. If the Texas Department of 1-20 Transportation determines that the route complies with all 1-21 applicable federal and state regulations regarding the 1-22 transportation of hazardous materials, the transportation 1-23 department shall approve the route and notify the municipality of 1-24 the approved route. 1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-31 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-32 * * * * *