1-1     By:  Turner of Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Madla)        H.B. No. 434
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to extending speed restrictions to private roads in
 1-9     certain subdivisions.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 542.006(a), Transportation Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The owners of a majority of the parcels of real property
1-14     abutting a private road may petition the Texas Transportation
1-15     Commission to extend the speed restrictions of this subtitle to the
1-16     portion of the road in a subdivision or across adjacent
1-17     subdivisions if:
1-18                 (1)  the road is not in a municipality;
1-19                 (2)  the total number of residents in the subdivision
1-20     and subdivisions adjacent to the subdivision is at least 400; and
1-21                 (3)  a plat for the subdivision and each adjacent
1-22     subdivision included to determine the number of residents under
1-23     Subdivision (2) has  been filed in the deed records of the county[;
1-24     and]
1-25                 [(3)  the subdivision has at least 400 residents].
1-26           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-32     passage, and it is so enacted.
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