By Uher                                               H.B. No. 1681
         76R6689 JD-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the construction and rehabilitation of bridges.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter J, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 201.804 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 201.804.  SUBMISSION OF BRIDGE DESIGN PLANS TO
 1-7     DEPARTMENT.  (a)  This section applies to any governmental entity
 1-8     of this state that is  authorized by law to construct or maintain a
 1-9     public road and that:
1-10                 (1)  constructs or rehabilitates a bridge;
1-11                 (2)  proposes to assume responsibility for a bridge
1-12     constructed or rehabilitated by another person; or
1-13                 (3)  issues a permit for the construction or
1-14     rehabilitation of a bridge by another person.
1-15           (b)  Before the 31st day after the date the construction or
1-16     rehabilitation of the bridge is completed, the governmental entity
1-17     shall submit to the department the structural design plans for the
1-18     bridge and any supporting documents required by the department.
1-19           (c)  The department shall use information submitted under
1-20     Subsection (b) as necessary in seeking to comply with 23 C.F.R.
1-21     Part 650, Subpart C.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.