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1-11     law is repealed, qualified for a maximum speed limit of 65 miles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.