By Yarbrough                                           H.B. No. 567
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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.  (a) As soon as practical, the Texas Department of
 1-6     Transportation shall erect  sound barrier walls along the north
 1-7     side of Interstate 610 in Houston, from a point on the west side of
 1-8     Yale at its intersection with Interstate 610 extending
 1-9     approximately 2-1/2 miles to the west to a point located on the
1-10     east side of East T. C. Jester at its intersection with Interstate
1-11     610.
1-12           (b)  The sound barrier described in Subsection (a) shall be
1-13     designed to reduce highway noise for residences located in the
1-14     vicinity of Interstate 610 on the following streets in Houston:
1-15     West 30th, West 31st, West 32nd, West 33rd, West 34th, Lawrence,
1-16     Randall, Attridge, Dunsmere, Gardendale, Bevis, Ansbury, Wilde Rock
1-17     Way, Stonecrest, Guese, Topham, Moonstone, Carlford Circle, Bron
1-18     Holly, and Piney Woods.
1-19           (c)  To the extent possible, the walls must not interfere
1-20     with access to commercial businesses or buildings.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.