1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to extending speed restrictions to private roads in
 1-3     certain subdivisions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 542.006(a), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The owners of a majority of the parcels of real property
 1-8     abutting a private road may petition the Texas Transportation
 1-9     Commission to extend the speed restrictions of this subtitle to the
1-10     portion of the road in a subdivision or across adjacent
1-11     subdivisions if:
1-12                 (1)  the road is not in a municipality;
1-13                 (2)  the total number of residents in the subdivision
1-14     and subdivisions adjacent to the subdivision is at least 400; and
1-15                 (3)  a plat for the subdivision and each adjacent
1-16     subdivision included to determine the number of residents under
1-17     Subdivision (2) has  been filed in the deed records of the county[;
1-18     and]
1-19                 [(3)  the subdivision has at least 400 residents].
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 434 was passed by the House on April
         23, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 434 was passed by the Senate on May
         17, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor