By Turner of Coleman H.B. No. 1669 77R4035 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duty of an operator of an underground facility to 1-3 notify an excavator of the operator's intentions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 251.157, Utilities Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Not later than the 24th hour before the time excavation 1-8 is to begin, an operator contacted by the notification center shall 1-9 notify the excavator of the operator's plans to mark or not mark 1-10 the proximate location of an underground facility at or near the 1-11 site of the proposed excavation. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.