By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1177
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the relocation of utilities required for the
 1-2     improvement of the state highway system.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 203, Transportation Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 203.0935 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 203.0935.  AGREEMENT.  Upon receipt of written
 1-7     notification from the department that relocation of a utility's
 1-8     facilities is necessary for an improvement to the state highway
 1-9     system, the utility shall enter into an agreement with the
1-10     department that provides for the relocation.  If the utility fails
1-11     to enter into an agreement within 90 days of the notification
1-12     provided for in this section, the department may relocate the
1-13     facilities at the sole cost and expense of the utility.  The 90 day
1-14     period may be extended by mutual agreement between the department
1-15     and the utility.
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.