By Eiland H.B. No. 1770 75R6641 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the sale of advertising space on a ferry operated or 1-3 controlled by the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 342, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 342.002 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 342.002. SALE OF ADVERTISING SPACE. (a) If the 1-8 department operates or controls a ferry under Section 342.001, the 1-9 department may sell advertising space on that ferry. 1-10 (b) Money received by the department from the sale of 1-11 advertising space on a ferry: 1-12 (1) shall be deposited to the credit of the state 1-13 highway fund; and 1-14 (2) may be used only to fund erosion projects of the 1-15 department that are located within 50 miles of the regular route of 1-16 that ferry. 1-17 (c) The department shall adopt rules as necessary to 1-18 administer this section. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.