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      By Glaze                                        H.B. No. 2266

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the regulation and maintenance of county roads.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 251.005, Texas Transportation Code is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 251.005.  Commissioner's Road Report.  (a)  A county

 1-7     commissioner serving as a road supervisor shall make a sworn annual

 1-8     report [to each regular term of] during the ninth month of the

 1-9     fiscal year on a form approved by the commissioners court showing:

1-10                 (1)  the condition of each road or part of a road and

1-11     of each culvert and bridge in the commissioner's precinct;

1-12                 (2)  the amount of money [held by overseers available]

1-13     reasonably necessary for maintenance of [to be spent on] the roads

1-14     in the precinct during the following fiscal year;

1-15                 (3)  the number of [mileposts and fingerboards] traffic

1-16     control devices in the precinct defaced or torn down;

1-17                 (4)  any new road that should be opened in the

1-18     precinct; and

1-19                 (5)  any bridges, culverts, or other improvements

1-20     necessary to place the roads in the precinct in good condition, and

1-21     the probable cost of the improvements.[; and]

1-22                 [(6)  the name of each overseer who has failed to work

1-23     on the roads or who in any way neglected to perform the overseer's

1-24     duties.]

 2-1           (b)  The report shall be entered in the minutes of the

 2-2     commissioners court to be considered in improving public roads and

 2-3     determining the amount of taxes imposed for public roads.

 2-4           (c)  The report shall be submitted, together with each

 2-5     contract made by the court since its last report for any work on

 2-6     any road, to the grand jury at the first term of the district court

 2-7     occurring after the report is made to the commissioners court.

 2-8           SECTION 2.  Sec. 252.101 Texas Transportation Code is amended

 2-9     to read as follows:

2-10           Sec. 252.101.  Subchapter Not Applicable to Certain Counties.

2-11     (a)  This subchapter does not apply to Angelina, Aransas, Blanco,

2-12     Bowie, Calhoun, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Comal, Dallas, Delta, DeWitt,

2-13     Fayette, Franklin, Galveston, Gillespie, Grayson, Gregg, Harris,

2-14     Harrison, Henderson, Hill, Hopkins, Houston, Jack, Jackson, Jasper,

2-15     Lamar, Lavaca, Limestone, McLennan, Milam, Montgomery, Morris,

2-16     Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Parker, Rains, Red River, Refugio,

2-17     Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Tarrant, Titus, Travis,

2-18     Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Washington, or Wood

2-19     County.

2-20           (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commissioners court

2-21     of Collin [or] Dallas, or Van Zandt County may adopt this subchapter

2-22     instead of the special law for that county if the court determines

2-23     that this subchapter is better suited to that county than the

2-24     special law.

2-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 3-1     passage, and it is so enacted.