1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 1099
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to excavation operations of employees of the Texas
1-9 Department of Transportation.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 3, Underground Facility
1-12 Damage Prevention and Safety Act (Article 9033, Vernon's Texas
1-13 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (d) Excavation by an employee of the Texas Department of
1-15 Transportation on a segment of the state highway system is not
1-16 subject to this Act, provided that such excavation is[:]
1-17 [(1) less than 24 inches in depth; and]
1-18 [(2) no] more than 10 feet from the right-of-way line.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-25 passage, and it is so enacted.
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