1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 1681 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 State 1-4 Affairs; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the construction and rehabilitation of bridges. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 201, Transportation Code, 1-11 is amended by adding Section 201.804 to read as follows: 1-12 Sec. 201.804. SUBMISSION OF BRIDGE DESIGN PLANS TO 1-13 DEPARTMENT. (a) This section applies to any governmental entity 1-14 of this state that is authorized by law to construct or maintain a 1-15 public road and that: 1-16 (1) constructs or rehabilitates a bridge; 1-17 (2) proposes to assume responsibility for a bridge 1-18 constructed or rehabilitated by another person; or 1-19 (3) issues a permit for the construction or 1-20 rehabilitation of a bridge by another person. 1-21 (b) Before the 31st day after the date the construction or 1-22 rehabilitation of the bridge is completed, the governmental entity 1-23 shall submit to the department a copy of the final structural 1-24 design plans for the bridge. 1-25 (c) The department shall use information submitted under 1-26 Subsection (b) as necessary in seeking to comply with 23 C.F.R. 1-27 Part 650, Subpart C. 1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-34 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-35 * * * * *