By: Nixon, Madla S.B. No. 791
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to specific information logo signs in certain counties.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Section 391.001, Transportation
1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (2) "Eligible highway" means [a highway that]:
1-6 (A) a highway that:
1-7 (i) is located outside an urbanized area
1-8 with a population of 50,000 or more; and
1-9 (ii) [(B)] qualifies for a maximum speed
1-10 limit of 65 miles per hour under 23 U.S.C. Section 154 or, if that
1-11 law is repealed, qualified for a maximum speed limit of 65 miles
1-12 per hour on the day before the effective date of the repeal; or
1-13 (B) a highway that is located in a county with a
1-14 population of less than 10,000 and is part of the state highway
1-15 system.
1-16 SECTION 2. 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,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.