By Ellis S.B. No. 242 76R3457 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the lease of rights-of-way along Texas highways. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. (a) Not later than September 1, 1999, the Texas 1-5 Department of Transportation shall adopt rules for leasing 1-6 rights-of-way, including highway medians and light towers for 1-7 telecommunications purposes. 1-8 (b) The department may appoint a rules advisory committee 1-9 that includes representatives of the telecommunications industry to 1-10 assist the department in drafting the rules. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.