1-1     By:  Alexander (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                H.B. No. 1779
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 1999;
 1-3     April 19, 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 2; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the eligibility of lodging establishments located near
 1-9     interchanges for specific information logo signs.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 391.093, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-13           (f)  The department shall by rule provide that an
1-14     establishment that provides lodging is eligible to have its name
1-15     displayed on a specific information logo sign if the establishment
1-16     is:
1-17                 (1)  visible from an eligible highway or an interchange
1-18     on an eligible highway; and
1-19                 (2)  located on a street that is not more than two
1-20     turns off the access or frontage road to the eligible highway.
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
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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