By Krusee H.B. No. 1687
75R4845 DWS-F
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.