By Burnam H.B. No. 2349 76R7752 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to allowing a municipality to use traffic-control devices 1-3 to reduce the speed at which vehicles are operated on municipal 1-4 streets. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 544.001, Transportation Code, is amended 1-7 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 544.001. ADOPTION OF SIGN MANUAL FOR STATE HIGHWAYS. 1-9 (a) The Texas Transportation Commission shall adopt a manual and 1-10 specifications for a uniform system of traffic-control devices 1-11 consistent with this chapter that correlates with and to the extent 1-12 possible conforms to the system approved by the American 1-13 Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. 1-14 (b) The manual may not prohibit a municipality from 1-15 installing traffic-control devices or pedestrian crosswalks other 1-16 than at intersections of streets in the municipality to reduce the 1-17 speed of vehicular traffic and permit crossings by pedestrians and 1-18 bicyclists, as determined by the municipality. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.