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.