By Ellis                                         S.B. No. 789

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the erection of sound barrier walls along certain parts

 1-3     of Interstate Highway 610 in Houston.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  As soon as practical, the Texas Department of

 1-6     Transportation shall erect  sound barrier walls along the west side

 1-7     of Interstate 610 in Houston, from a point approximately 1/2 mile

 1-8     south of the intersection of Interstate Highway 610 and Interstate

 1-9     Highway 10 on the east side of Houston extending to a point located

1-10     approximately five-eighths of a mile to the south.  The sound

1-11     barrier shall be designed to reduce highway noise for residences

1-12     located in the vicinity of Interstate 610 on the following streets

1-13     in Houston:  Laurentide, Candy, Fannette, Berndale, Tilgham,

1-14     Cowart, Wiggins, Pattibob, Josie, Flossie Mae, Othello, Quaker, and

1-15     Guinivere.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.