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.

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