By Alexander                                          H.B. No. 1779
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the eligibility of lodging establishments located near
 1-3     interchanges for specific information logo signs.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 391.093, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 1-7           (f)  The department shall by rule provide that an
 1-8     establishment that provides lodging is eligible to have its name
 1-9     displayed on a specific information logo sign if the establishment
1-10     is:
1-11                 (1)  visible from an eligible highway or an interchange
1-12     on an eligible highway; and
1-13                 (2)  located on a street that is not more than two
1-14     turns off the access or frontage road to the eligible highway.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.