SRC-LBB H.B. 1439 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 1439
78R5314 JRJ-FBy: Eissler (Williams)
Infrastructure Development and Security
5/9/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 


Currently, Chapter 1393, Acts of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session,
1999, allows the commissioners courts of certain counties to extend
traffic rules that apply to county roads to the roads of a private
subdivision in an unincorporated area of that county on petition of 25
percent of the property owners residing in that subdivision in which the
roads are privately maintained or on the request of the governing body of
the entity that maintains those roads. 

Subsection (a), Chapter 913, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2001, raised the population of counties to which this section
applies from 10,000 or less to 100,000 or less. 

H.B. 1439 amends Section 542.007(a), Transportation Code, to increase the
population of counties to which this section applies from 100,000 or less
to 500,000 or less. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 542.007(a), Transportation Code, to provide
that this section applies only to a subdivision that is located in the
unincorporated area of a county with a population of 500,000 or less,
rather than 100,000 or less. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date:  September 1, 2003.