By Hupp                                               H.B. No. 2541
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to traffic offenses occurring in a construction or
 1-3     maintenance work zone.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 472.022(e)(2), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (2)  "Construction or maintenance work zone" means a
 1-8     portion of a highway or street:
 1-9                       (A)  where highway construction or maintenance is
1-10     being undertaken, other than mobile operations as defined by the
1-11     Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices; and
1-12                       (B)  that is marked by [one or more] signs
1-13     indicating that it is a construction or maintenance work zone and
1-14     indicating where the zone begins and ends.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.