By Krusee                                       H.B. No. 1687

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to counties and local government corporations authorized

 1-3     to undertake certain causeway, bridge, tunnel, turnpike, or highway

 1-4     projects.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 284.002(a), Transportation Code, is

 1-7     amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter

 1-9     applies only to a county that:

1-10                 (1)  has a population of 50,000 or more and borders the

1-11     Gulf of Mexico or a bay or inlet opening into the gulf;

1-12                 (2)  has a population of 500,000 [1.5 million] or more;

1-13     or

1-14                 (3)  is adjacent to a county that has a population of

1-15     500,000 [1.5 million] or more.

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  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.